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… becomes a real burnt layer close to the rock. What this whole story is I find hard to understand. So much I think one may nevertheless say that it does not belong to any of the building phases within the so-called E. C. House. Probably it is some destroyed remains of a neighbouring house. Of what age?!
Pl IX.i. This section is quite informative. It runs 0.70 m. west of h and is drawn out from the southern to the northern boundary wall of the house, through the remains of its western counterpart (see plan). From the northern of these runs the strongly stone-paved floor from E C I b, the middle part of which is recon-structured without risk of any significant mistake. Beneath this, layers III and IV belonging to the E C I a occupation run in the usual way. At metre 4, however, these strata and partly also the fill layer (layer V) are broken through by a depression from layer II, a depression … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain