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our scarp. To the east it fell away with the cave-in of Tomb 9 and the tunnel entrance to Tomb 1; a broken end of Wall A is visible over the far side of Tomb 9. The contemporary ground level south or outside of Wall A seems to have been about 0.50 from its top (ca. 1.50 from the present surface), where a large fragment of a Roman casserole was found in a patch of burning, in a layer of whitish earth of irregular level which toward the west rises over a ruined upper course of Wall B.
We cleared a small area of the same period on the south edge of the Tomb 1 cavein, where the scarp of Trench 43 had shown part of a deposit including some curious pottery. At a depth of 1.20 to 1.30 from the surface there was again an uneven surface of whitish earth on which rested a Roman casserole (P 1586) broken but nearly complete. The partly preserved deposit visible on the scarp was nearby in a little irregular hollow in the hard whitish earth, covered with small stones. Although a fragmentary probably human bone was found, the contents of the hollow seem not to be part of a burial, but rubbish from a glassmaker's establishment, including a crude saucer with glass dripping on inside and out, and fragments of a crystalline substance, perhaps quartz. Some broken glass was with these objects, and more bits of glass and of glassmaker's waste were found scattered outside at this level, as well as with the sherds from the upper fill over the southern part of the caved-in Tomb 1, just to the north. (These sherds also provided joins with the pottery from the deposit.) The bottom of the hollow containing the deposit was full of bits of charcoal and other evidences of burning.
More glass drippings, and fragments of similar pots, were found among and under the stones of the floor or platform belonging to Wall A, hence evidently contemporary with the glassmaker's deposit. No coins turned up in either area, but a date earlier than the 2nd century AD seems precluded by fragments of neck, shoulder, and cup-like foot of a pot like that illustrated in Figure 8 (this example, P 1600, from another trench), and by the lamp L 373 (see Figure 9) which was found against the lower stones of the north side of Wall A, just over Wall C.
1 This lamp belongs to a type fairly common in Cyprus which has been assigned to the second half of the 1st century AD, but apparently not for reasons of context of
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