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… been very primitive: merely an irregular pit in the earth provided with sporadic edgestones. The circumstance that the floor stones lie particularly close above this hearth-area seems to indicate that the hearth was not used during the entire span of habitation but was at some point at the end of E.C. I a period deliberately filled in with intent. No other hearth belonging to this period has however been found. A puzzling circumstance. Perhaps the filling-in was motivated by obscure cult considerations when the E.C. I a family moved away.
Out of the layer that forms this settlement's ground level a larger stone block sticks up, most of which lies sunk into the underlying fill layer (layer V). This stratum is reinforced by a larger piece of coherent chavara resting on top of the bottom stratum (layer VI). … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain