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July 10, 1978

Excavation of cuts 4-7 (110cm. Depth) continued moving southward through L-M30-33, encountering a burn layer a ca.90cm. deep between layers of a clay-like yellow soil. In grid 30 great amounts of pottery fragments were removed from teh black soil of the burn layer 2 boxes, 2.5 cartons of assorted fabrics (some bucchero, but primarily cosrse ware, impasto, low-fired varieties, including a quantitu of fine buff pottery. In teh same grid great amounts of bronze gramgnents were present together with a few slag pieces . A large coarse ware, globular pot (Pres. Ht., 25c.) was also discovered in M30, preserved intact in the earth for 2/3 of its height, its bse set flat in yellow, clay-like soil below the burn layer, the pot was filled with earth (mixed yello and black, from burn layer) with fragments of tile (including flange of pan tile) and a mixture of pottery, together with several rim fragments of 3 different types , on of which may complte the pot's profile. The entire pot was removed from the soil excpet for part of tis based. For less pottery was recovered from L_M31-32: only 2 cartoons. A series of 3 regularly placed large rocks with extremely flat top-

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surfaces were partially uncovered in M32-33 running E-W at a depth of 80cm. )apparently the burn layer, although thin, runs above these stones). These large rocks appear to form a 90\xb0 angle with a a series of similar stones running N-S in L-K31 which forms another 90\xb0 angle with a single group of large stones in K 30-31.

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• Find #1
• L30
• Burn layer
• Fragment, possible bronze cut-out
• Drawing
• Photo

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19780123

• Find #2
• L30
• Burn layer
• Iron nail
• Drawing
• Photo

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• Find #6
• M30
• Large coarse ware pot
• Drawing
• Photo

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19780064

• Find #7
• L/M30-31
• Impasto gragment with letter Alpha
• Drawing
• Photo