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… gives no stratification. All the way from the base up to the upper boundary of the layer it has the same consistency and composition. Black, greasy earth full of ash, charcoal and sherds. Local accumulations of sherds derive from damaged vessels that were thrown down, and similarly accumulations of charcoal show when the hearth was cleared. Nor in the niche is there any stratification that could clarify the relation between it and the bothros itself. Only successive filling.
Pl. V1 andPl. IIBothros no. 2 yields no more than the first. It lacks a stone setting round the edge, and the stratification above it indicates that the pit was already filled before the settlement was abandoned. It should therefore reasonably be somewhat older than no. 1. That it lacks a stone setting is of course likewise due to its having been filled, since such a "railing" round it would have been missing … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain