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July 16, 1979

Boxes tile: 5

Cartons pottery: 6+

The rock pile in grids N-P 33-35 is further exposed, drawn (see p. 363 ) and removed.  It consists of a jumble of large and smaller stones of irregular shape "floating" 1-2 deep on a layer of soil ca. 7-10 cm from the top of the east-west wall.  The top of the pile is ca. 40 cm from the top of the wall and 40 cm. from the top of the trench.  Below the rocks the soil is dark with much charcoal, and often dense areas of red, orange, yellow and white matter much like the burn layer encountered along the north-south wall.  Here there is also a good deal of tile and some pink, slablike stones.  In grid 33N, below the level of the top of the east-west well and just south of where a large pot was excavated, another shattered pot is found, but not enough for a profile. (CF. supra p. 263 and p. 267 #8)  The fairly plentiful pottery includes bucchero and some fine orange ware as well as impasto and heavier coarse sherds.  Bronze is not uncommon, and bronze objects occur (#5, 12, 14, 15) near the findspot of the gorgon supra p. 229 # 8, in O 34, 2 fragments of gorgon locks (#7, 8, 11) many fragments of a large pithos or pithoi also continue to come up here.

Also continue to move south in grids L-M 38-39 in the heavy burn layer alongside the north-south wall.  Tile continues to abound in and just over the burn soil, also an unusual proportion of fine ware: bucchero, buff (#4), orange, and grey, as well as good impasto (#2).  Large pieces + masses of sometimes burned plaster.  Also bronze (#1) and slag.  Tile fall of LM 37-38 is sketched (p. 363 ) and lifted. (see supra p. 209 )  The large rocks among which these great fragments had fallen remain.  They are primarily pan tiles.  Reach depth, still of ca. 90 cm.  The heavy burn layer is very uneven and is reached ca. 5 to 10 cm from the "floor."  Over it a white-yellow layer is sometimes visible.  In all, a variety of pan-tile types is found ranging from #6 to #13 and with two more normal, intermediate sizes, of which specimens are kept.

19790134

• Find #1
• L38
• Bronze nail
  • drawing
  • photograph

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19790276

• Find #7
• O34
• Fragment of gorgon antefix, corner, locks.
• Left and bottom edges finished
  • drawing
  • photograph

19790275

• Find #8
• O34
• Fragment of gorgon antefix, corner, locks
  • drawing
  • photograph

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19790141

• Find #14
• P34
• Fragment of bronze nail
  • drawing
  • photograph

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Monday, 16 July (evening)

Discovered in cleaning.

19790162

• Find #1
• I-L 38-39
• Bucchero sherd (foot) with stamp
  • drawing
  • photograph

Add also:

19790117

• Find #2
• O34
• worked horn, "cornetto"
  • drawing
  • photograph

19790093

• Find #3
• P 33-34
• Fragment of a bronze nail, head and shaft
  • drawing
  • photograph

19790280

• Find #4
• Worked bone
  • photograph