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 55 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.

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Trench XLV - (see p. 14) 200 to 260: clayey earth greyish greenish : Layer 7 pottery R.B. I or M.B. III: "red on black", dark decoration on light ground", "base ring" primitive "milk bowl". 250, to the north: bone awl. Ptt 33 - 260: to the north and south, rock, virgin soil. Work finished.

Trench XLIV - (see p. 13) 120 to 150 cm: compact brown earth: Layer 6 150 to 180 cm: greenish earth, with beds of ash. Layer 7 180: spindle whorl in bone or ivory: Ptt 34 - 180 to 190 cm: burnt brick-red earth primitive floor: Layer 8 190 cm: virgin soil, in places the rock, in places clay and stones filling the hollows of the rock.

Pottery layers 6 and 7: Iron Age, coarse sherds and not very characteristic (not kept). layer 8: no pottery Work finished -

Trench XXXVII . (see 88) In places, installations and walls are met with hearths under the road, which is very thin - for example at the SE corner.

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

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