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Tuesday 16 Sept. temp. 32° but stormy weather cloudy sky clearing towards evening at the fall of a strong wind on the ground. 16 men, 17 women. the staggering of the workmen allows the opening of trenches 17, 18, 19 and finally (12-13-14) no pottery and no object. Aitken intends to continue tomorrow, his tests at trench bottom the initial calibration attributed by him seems to him false in the sense that the reactions he supposed emitted by rock cavities could be emitted by another phenomenon, perhaps purely magnetic. like yesterday, the results of the day are foreign to his forecasts. several facts lead me to try tomorrow a new timetable, in place of the usual timetable used in 1957 - - the sun still rises very early and from 6h the workmen wait noisily at the surroundings. - in the evening, after the site, our survey
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