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Carter No.: 316

Handlist description: Plain wooden box

Card/Transcription No.: 316-1


316. PLAIN WOODEN BOX (See 315, 317) 1

POSITION: - N.E. corner of chamber; cord and seals broken; lid partially open and pushed aside; knobs towards west.

DIMENSIONS: - L. 60.5; W. 42.3; Max. H. (including lid) 50, cents.

DESCRIPTION: - Plain oblong wooden box; stands upon four rectangular legs; torus and cavetto cornice; gable shaped lid; knob on lid and front of box, to which cord was tied and sealed; cord broken & seal destroyed, leaving insufficient to tell what kind of seal was employed.

CONTENTS: - Empty save sixteen (?) model implements (the blades of three found detached from their handles). One of the implements was found lying on the floor in front of the box - see 316 A-P.

REMARKS: - The contents of this box had evidently been robbed, and whatever it contained was coated with black resin - this from the drops and blobs of resin on the bottom of the box. It is hardly conceivable that so large a box contained the small implements alone.

Card no. 316-1 relating to Carter no. 316
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