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Commentary on the drawings
Pl. VII.Pl. VIII.The section runs approximately through the house's transverse axis in a north-south direction (see the plan). Outside the house wall which is visible in section at metre 1 lies, level with the tops of the bricks of the wall, a layer of dark clay containing a number of red-polished sherds of Chalcolithic and early Cypriot type. The sharp boundary between this and the light clay layer lying above it (mixed with sherd material), as well as its compact, fatty consistency, indicate that it is an undisturbed cultural stratum. As it contains a few collapse stones from the house wall, it undoubtedly marks the ground level after the settlement was destroyed or abandoned. Note how high in the stratum the collapse stones lie. Their position shows that the ground surface during the area's period of habitation lay only … continues
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