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13/13Trial trench 1. The earth fill is very deep, c. 2 m, before the rock is found. It is poor in sherds, and what it contains is Byzantine. At 1.50 m. depth lies a stretch of wall from Byzantine times, and the wall continues right down to the rock where it rests in a 0.30 m. deep hollow. Around the wall itself lies a considerable number of bricks scattered in the fill - among them a dressed poros block. The wall is torn down to expose the rock. The trench proves to be negative.
Now a number of trial pits are laid out in the field along the road, about 30 m north-west of trial trench 1 (see sketch), nos. 2, 3 and 4. Trial pit 2, where the earth layer above the rock is 0.55 m. thick, proved negative.
Immediately next to trial pit 5 it is claimed that a spilion was found a year ago during the foundation of the house Trial pit 4 negative. The rock is everywhere … continues
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