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34 Dec 1. Central Room dug to c. 45-50 cm below "floor" on which Last's hoard (2nd part p. 41) was found. A few coins seem to have percolated down at least 30 cm below that floor. From NW cor of Central Room and below fl. 6 bz coins - di c. 8-9mm 1 lead blank (?) di c. 10 mm. v larger coins
Drawing: circle; labels: C / 3181] (drawing) C 3183-
3184 (rest dis.)
The SW quarter was dug to slightly lower level
1 of typical coins (drawing) the other thin broken not retrievable C 3185 [larger than above outline] (1 dis.)
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35 The weeks digging has not proved that a mint was here!; nor disproved it.
That this was a factory of sorts, possibly for working metal seem certain.
As a mint the chief question is what coins could have been struck in Cyprus in the 5" Cent A.D. The small "Vandal" coins of which one knows little do not seem fresh, What was the purpose of the lead blanks?
The coins of Heraklius which may have been struck in Cyprus! are fresh, but except in W Room pottery etc seems to early to make it possible to attribute the working of the place to his time.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain