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November 5, 1965 7.17. E ff inactive (women cleaning 7.21. E) 7.15 E I find 5 cm below what had been left as "bed rock" a layer of sherds. A worker is digging now the N half of this. 7.9. E weight found in pit on N side black stone (drawing) actual size; flat bottom 7.8. E pit on W is complete. Strata as of its N & E face: top is 1st floor 35 cm below ground surface. At 55 cm down is a 2nd floor on which ashes
Drawing: vertical stratigraphic scale with horizontal level ticks; labels: 35; first floor white; 40; ashes on thin floor; 50; ashes on thin floor; 60; 2 cm white floor; 70; 4 cm white floor; 80; 1 cm white floor; 90; 100; stones emerge; 110; bed rock
[margin right: to what historical periods do these floors correspond?]
This stratigraphy suggests that Michael's terminology used previously refers only to main floors, i.e. his "third floor" is usually as low or lower than what seems here a 5th floor.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain