Field diary·DII:3c·1928–1930

Petra tou Limniti and VouniAlfred Westholm

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 141 of field diary DII:3c (Petra tou Limniti and Vouni), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:3c, Public domain (CC0).

Page _111_Scan 141 of 164

List continued from scan 140

Point of boneprickerl. 2,2 cmB137
Fragments of a boneneedleB138
Flintpieces——39
Flintknifel. 4,5 cmB340
Pricker ? of stonel. 3,6 cmB341
Stone-idoll. 15 cm—42

To these finds are also added some flint fragments and animal teeth, which were salvaged in connection with the 1928 preliminary investigation.

Petra IThe oldest settlement in the excavated area consists of has been in a rock-cut clearly deliberately hewn pit falling within the frame of squares Γ3 - Ε3 — B5 — E5 (see the plan). As the rock is lower in squares B4 - B5 one has at this place replaced the rock edge (the wall of the pit) with some stones, a wall which in this direction closes the pit. The pit (Petra I) was filled with horizontally layered layers cultural earth, of two sharply distinct kinds.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain