Woolley's Field Note Cards | Woolley's Field Note Cards

PG 596

the fact that it had a covering of reed matting smeared in bitumen.

Further excavation however proved that the reed matting had no connexion with the larnax grave but was an intrusive burial at a slightly higher level For in the matting were found human leg bones; the matting had really formed the floor of a second grave, an inhumation burial perhaps of the same period as the larnax but slightly later.

(1) on the bitumen matting a cockle shell, no remains of paint

(2) In [?] in with the inhumation burial A greenish drab clay pot badly smashed. Known Type