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Friday, July 6

Area B 4-5

Took these grids down further into B level.

Profile B-E 3 was pulled down.

The trench was closed down for this year.

B 4-5

B stratum:

Some red burnt soil still remained to be dug in grid 4.

Below this soiltype, mainly in grid 4, in the area next to N-S profile in 3, comes a gray layer with carbon specks.  Where this stratum is seen to slope down n-wards.  For this gray, cf. grid C4, p. 137 .

Eastwards at same level as ray layer in B4,we have, mainly in B5, a stratum of

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middle-small size pietre: cf. p. 116 .

Some pieces of tiles among the stones and some pottery.  The soil here is brown, fine-grained.

In B 4-5, we won\'t go down further at this point; we leave the stones.

The strata in area B-H (3)4-5(6) are still far from clear, but better to proceed slowly here, step by step, and leave some (i.e. much) for later.

Profile B-E 3

The profile which has been drawn before was pulled down from the S stratum by stratum, with the help of the drawing.  In B-D 3, the profile is still standing in its original height, in E it has been already taken down into B stratum, heavily burnt soil pietrische.

First of all, A stratum is removed, speedily, in B-D.

Then in E and D, we work down in B level which is here characterized by heavily burnt soil with a concentration of pietrische (with notably pointed edges).

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Then stratum B mainly in B and C 3 was shaved off.

Below this appears the gray surface of B stratum: gray, with carbon specks.  The level of this surface in the profile was measured from the fix point.

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Trench photo.

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When pulling down the profile, the big stone mentioned several times before, visible since last year in D3, seemingly N-most stone in Big Stone Line, was made to appear; it has huge dimensions ca. 82x60x40, and is of a regular shape with a flat upper surface.

A smaller stone on top of this was removed, after drawing and measuring:

Sketch of trench.

The Big Stone Line is now disclosed in its full length, N-S.

Still no clear continuation eastwards, either at N or at S end.

R5 area dug this year was cleaned for pictures to be taken.

The pit C-D 4-5 should be filled up with some material.

Some pichetti should be driven far down into the soil, to make measuring easier next year (?)