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Friday 9 Sept. 1949_ 1st day of excavation.
Start of the excavations \at 6h<s> with 38 men and 38 women. - Weather: fine, cool. Yesterday's rain has moistened the ground and prevents dust. On surface very extremely few sherds Byz. or later. I observe in squares 4 and 6 and 19 two 4 hearth points. That is all over 100 m long and 2 m w. = 200 m. Tr. 4 (or "at the menhir" which falls at peg 50) In square 2 at 15 cm 1 fr. Mycen.(?) painted two sides. Square 3 at 15 cm, 1 chip, black pot. probable. Greek or Hell. Square 8, at 10 cm, 1 fr. milkbowl good fact. Square 20 at the limit of the humus, brown appears at 12 cm. worked stone. Square 23, thick wall oriented N S.
Gen. obs. all the common pot. from surface is immediately Bronze Age. Nothing later. It is even remarkable as homogeneity In several places, squares 11-14 reach sterile layer, fine hard earth medium brown, already at 15 cm below present imm. level, under humus. Sterile layer. I make [written sideways: if there is archaeol. layer.] more soundings to see
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain