Armand Sejour was working his way down the steps and he suggested that Philip clear the masonry wall which supported the side of the staircase.
Armand had already cleared four steps the previous evening. These turned a complete right angle away from the rock face. He had spoken to Jackie to obtain her authorisation to put in a second trench to follow the line of the staircase and she promised to come down later in the morning to make a decision. Meanwhile he had diverted Philip to digging down to clear the wall beside the steps.
Within an hour Philip had struck a further stone slab at a lower level. He pointed this out to Armand who gave him a trowel and told him to scrape away the soil from the surface carefully while he continued clearing the steps. Jeanette had less to sieve now that they were working with trowels and she came down to join them and shovel soil into the buckets.
After a further half an hour Philip had cleared part of what appeared to be a large slab of masonry - far bigger than a step.
