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

Omeka ID:	5732

Transcription:	PG 1236 A2 was roofed arm w large flat capstones 008-010 thick & about ____________ long, more quarry slabs sufficiently trimmed along - edges to point closely. - Walls were built w ordering round marker this for - roof tr was used a heavy green clay wch filled - interior & was thirty planks over - whole At a ht o 140-150 round because over layered across - chamber for a ceiling to support - last stages o - roof. These beams must have been left in situ, but - wall [planks?] were carried up to - top o - chamber.

Location	Context Title	Context Description	Description (Modern)
	PG/1236	A large stone-built chamber (limestone rubble) with 4 inner rooms. In this it is very similar to the layout of PG/779. A looter's hole had caused a collapse at one end and much damage throughout the tomb, but architecturally this large chamber was better preserved than many others. Contents, however, were meager owing to ancient looters. Woolley believed this had been the tomb of a king, with attendants in some of the chambers. He traced the side of the pit more than 7 meters above the chamber and believed that a mud brick building above that had been a kind of chapel for rituals after the burial.	(none)