Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-1·1955

Excavation notebook of Contenson, 9th seasonH. de Contenson

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 47 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-1 (Excavation notebook of Contenson, 9th season), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 25Scan 47 of 130

17/10/55 Pt 47: MB pottery, East paving at - 1m25 depth - 1.45, Tr Sud 1 4m East sump. Above the paving, pottery mixed, mostly RB.

Pt 48 bronze ball, weight, found above floor II in excavation [illegible], Tr Sud 2 against wall of division between the rooms. Depth: - 0m85

Trench Sud 1 Salle Ouest Route virgin soil reached in the North part, at - 1m50 approx. -

Pt 49: piece of lead, in excavation old, near Pt 48

Pt 48: stratigraphy: 1/ surface layer - 0 to 0m70 2/ white layer hard: Floor I which did not appear in the section To this floor are attached sherds of "bucchero" and [illegible] and of 3/ black layer: bronze ball 48 horizontal sherds 4/ hard layer: Floor II, [illegible] abutting against lower course of the wall, forming bench -

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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