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Area — We began as planned on Monday 5 Sept. and on his arrival de Contenson used our observations without any difficulty. Poor harvests and a certain unemployment have offered us a wide choice of workmen. following your instructions, which provided for 50 excavators, I took 46 men, 3 specialised women who clean the walls, floors etc. and sherds for de Contenson. the 50th is the son of Michael who speaks English and can thus help us all, in many fields.
Drawing: plan of streets, buildings and trenches with hatched, cross-hatched, stippled and dotted-outline key boxes on the right; labels: CHANTIER NORD; rue EW; rue EW; Temple area; rue EW; Maison 18; dallage; rue NS; chantier 1959; tranchées 1st semaine 1960; tranchées en cours; tranchées à commencer dans le cours de cette semaine .
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain