R.1908–09 / 1

Annual Report of the Ravensworth Expedition — The Season of 1908–9

The founding item of the archive: the Director's account of the Necropolis Ridge survey, the clearance of Tomb R.14, and the recovery of stela No. 41 — “the Stela of the Bow.” Dr. Ambrose's instrumental observations of the shaft-mouth phenomenon are printed here in the barest technical form, per the Committee's own editorial decision.

Physical: 18 pp.; cream stock (warm ivory); A4 trim; printed letterpress, sewn gathering, printed wrappers
Printer: Chalmers & Wray, 17 Great Russell Street, London
Date: 1909 (MCMIX); circulated to subscribers the same year
Relation: Appendix I (/2) continues its pagination directly, pp. 19–20. Item /3 reproduces the twelve plates described at §43. Item /4 was withheld from this Report and is not referenced within it.

“I set the coincidence down as I find it and draw no conclusion from it whatever.”

— on the arc's cessation the day the stela was lifted, §49

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Relation to other items

Appendix I — Canon Starling's Note

Continues this Report's own pagination without break, pp. 19–20; not a separately issued item.

Photographic Plates I–XII

Reproduces, as a separately issued companion, the same twelve plates described at §43 of this Report.

Material Omitted from the Report

Withheld from this Report by the Director; not referenced within it.

Committee Correspondence

Directly explains the editorial structure realised in this Report's §§45–55.