Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-5·1958

Excavation notebook of Contenson, 11th season, no. 3H. de Contenson

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

Scan 31 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-5 (Excavation notebook of Contenson, 11th season, no. 3), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-5, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 14Scan 31 of 206

Trench XLV. Stratigraphy: 0 to 40 cm: brown earth: Layer 1 At 40 cm, in the centre, walls superimposed on one another and juxtaposed. To the north and south, 40 to 75 cm: grey earth and brick-red earth intermixed: Layer 2 75 to 110 cm: grey ashy earth: Layer 3 110 to 130 cm: burnt brown earth, probably floor: Layer 4 130 to 140 cm: ashes and charcoal: Layer 5 Beyond 140 cm, clayey earth greyish: Layer 6 Depth reached: 200 cm to the north, 230 cm to the south, probably not the virgin soil.

Material: Layers 1 - 2: pottery rare and difficult to date thumb-rest handle (drawing) coarse "bucchero" Layers 3 - 4: bowls, jug, neck at the base of a jar. Date: Iron I Layers 5 - 6: abundant pottery. fine painted pottery with decoration linear in "close style". Date: LB III.

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

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