Letter from S. Swiny to Schaeffer on the "water levels", with a summary of his reportStuart Swiny

Trench 4W and extension to the East in an area already partly excavated.

Trench 4W (4m×16m) could not be excavated down to the rock for lack of time. Four floors were cleared but with the exception of the deepest (no.⁴) they were difficult to identify and poor in objects as well as in pottery. Above floor 4 a scarab (no.¹⁹¹³) was uncovered, the only important object found in this trench. The architectural elements consisted of walls of stone supporting mud bricks, red, grey or brown. These walls formed two rectangular rooms belonging to an earlier period than floor 4, since they did not rest on it. Unfortunately a quarter of the trench was disturbed by "pits" dug by the tomb robbers Their searches were certainly fruitful for two pits contained pottery of the Bronze Age. The remainder of the pottery found in the trench dated to the Iron Age. To the East of trench 4W a room partly excavated at an earlier date was excavated down to the rock. Over a depth of about 50 cm. there succeeded 6 easily recognisable floors: 1^o/ A thick white floor 2^o/ A paving of small stones. 3^o/ A floor covered with a layer of ash. 4 and 5^o/ earth floors beaten 6^o/ The rock. (The walls to the North and East of the room rested on the … continues