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Saturday 15 October 1966Rampart Area. The excavations continue in the two wide double trenches oriented E.-W., on either side of the W. Gate of the town, with the 15 workmen (Pacomios included) plus one woman. The blocking architecture of the edge of the Street in its last state at Iron I, becomes clearer during the morning, on its two flanks. We begin to uncover jars or pithoi, buried, still in situ, in the rooms opening onto the street, to the north as well as the south. A hearth area appears également, à 0 m 75 de profondeur. All this is well dated by the pottery fragments of the common type at the time of the "Granary style". At topographic point 1445, on the floor, it seems, at - 0 m 75, a solid iron sickle is discovered oxidised
Drawing: side view and cross-section of a curved iron sickle blade
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain