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B2) To test the stratification a trial pit was sunk below 9.72 to 10.20.
Mostly coarse ware was found (G 75) and the following decorated sherds:
2 sherds BR 1 " Myc. III 1 tile-like object Sh 616
Daniel described the excavation as follows: "The pure charcoal and ash layer goes to a burnt clayey level. Below this we find another layer of ash...This is circular in shape and rests on a bed of clay with many stones, clearly burnt under considerable temperature. Around this circle of ash is a solid bed of gritty red clay, similar to that we have been cutting through, burned hard along the ash circle, which slopes up onto it slightly. Over the whole thing was a layer of clayey silt, clearly deposited in several strata with water. It now becomes clear that the whole area...is a large open space within a vast rock cutting, in which we have the remains of many small furnaces, sunk partly into red clay. They are on several overlapping levels, without any prevalent level; there was apparently a constant replacement, and raising of level as required, no one held long enough to become packed into a real floor."
The pit was sunk below 10.20 into a mixed layer of unusual clays, green, red-brown and deep gray. The sherds were (20:11 On bedrock from 10.20):
80% plain 1 sherd painted 1 " WS II 2 " LH III
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain