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Margin top: 14 Novembre 1950
14.XI.50. Dear Megaw, Thank you for your letter of Nov. 6 th. With reference to your § 4 , it is not customary that archaeological material collected by an excavator is in detail inspected by another archaeologist before his report is published. Without knowing the circumstances of the finds, Dik. would be mislead by the examination of my new material. I did not inspect his material before his report and have to-day not seen many of his finds. I advice therefore that Dik. waites until he receives the proofs of my report and the sections drawn by my architects. On the other hand, the experience of my last season, as I told Dik. on the spot, gives to his finds on + in floor V a possible new meaning. Before attempting to date his ashlar building it seems to me urgent that he multiplieses the examination of his floor V and layers below by clear vertical sections. As he said himself, the provisional report
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