TAA i.1.memo.6
Handwritten report on the robberies, page 4.
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had been entered by roughly breaking a hole through the masonry and
many of the stones that were dislodged fell inwards and were found
lying on the floor of the annexe, and resting on the top of these stones
were various articles including several large alabaster jars which can
only have been placed in this position after the breach in the doorway
had been made and their present position therefore is not the original
one.
5. A hole large enough to admit a man had been made in each of
the sealed doorways and also in that of the annexe and with the
exception of the latter (which was found open) the others had been
re-closed and re-sealed at a very early date.
There is one fact suggestive of original carelessness and one fact that
might be used as an argument against robbery. The fact suggestive f of
carelessness is that the annexe when found was too full of objects for it
ever to have been possible for them all to have been accommodated on the
floor and some of them therefore must have been piled originally one on
(continued)