Letter from Megaw to Schaeffer on publications on Enkomi, the calendar and excavation permitsClaude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer

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… for public purposes cannot properly be alienated. However one or two plots at the north end were purchased by agreement, without compulsion, e.g. that on which the earth has been dumped. I could seek approval to dispose of these if trial excavations produced negative or unimportant results. But, before selling them, we should first consider exchanging them for other areas still privately owned which we might wish to keep open. I have in mind plot 265 in which the greater part of our trench lies and into which your north trench extends.

I quite agree that the maximum of the funds available should be reserved for excavation and publication. If we acquire plot 265, or part of it, as I think you will agree we should do (preferably by exchange, as suggested above). I hope it will be possible to avoid any further outlay on acquisition, by confining the main digging operations to the extensive areas we have already expropriated.

Yours sincerely,

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