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 89 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 48Scan 89 of 196

Stratigraphy sector West trench, sector 24: Floors not very clear; the material as in the previous sectors is distributed in three levels: 0 to 0,75 ) Iron Age 0,75 to 1,30 ) 1,30 to 1,60: Late Bronze III Beyond 1,60: Late Bronze II, I Middle Bronze There too, floor the upper architecture is set on a floor of white to greenish clay at a depth of 1m30. [illegible] The rock shelf descends to 1m90, Stratigraphy but it is pierced with holes including the Iron Age well, Pt 527.

Stratigraphy West trench, sector 25: - 0m75: beaten earth floor with ashes, on which rest pts 476, 494 and 503. Iron Age pottery - 0m75 to 1m60: fine ashy earth with Late Bronze III pottery (sub-Mycenaean).

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

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