Notebook·34 CDF art. 128-7·1960–1961

Excavation notebook of Contenson, 5th notebook, 1960 and 1961H. de Contenson

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

Scan 13 of notebook 34 CDF art. 128-7 (Excavation notebook of Contenson, 5th notebook, 1960 and 1961), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 128-7, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Page 10Scan 13 of 196

Pt 443: bowl of slipped pottery (drawing) dark, in situ (MB?, Tr. Ouest, 14 depth: 1 m 90 or RB) no. 216

Pt 446: pin in bronze (drawing) in a layer of fine blackish earth above a layer of burnt earth reddish. Same level as Pt 442 depth: 1 m 45 no. 217 Tr. Ouest, sector 11 All around the bronze pin, fragments of jars lying horizontally.

Trench Ouest, stratigraphy of sectors 11 12 – Brown earth down to 1 m 00, Iron Age sherds – 1 m 00: white floor (2 baulks preserved) – Grey layer with charcoal, ashy earth, very few sherds – 1 m 20: grey floor (2 baulks preserved) – Layer of ochre brick earth with fine earth blackish in places, Middle Bronze sherds – 1 m 50: floor of burnt clayey earth

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

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