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456Here, in Z 9, a piece of a flint- knife l. 3.1 cm. is found at a depth of 0.30. The trench runs here down the steep slope toward the road, which bounds the area to the north. Below the stone setting a further flint- knife l. 3.2 cm. is found at a depth of 0.55. Right down in the chavara-mixed bottom-layer, next to the sterile chavara, there was found an early, almost unburnt red-polished sherd, and at the same spot [cross-section I Γ 9 ca 110] a piece of raw flint, which shows clear traces of tools having been struck from it. Disappointing, on the other hand, is the remarkably high percentage of purely Byzantine sherds which lie at times quite deep down, as in the Large Section B 11, where one such is found only 0.15 m above the rock-ledge. Also geometr. and classical A new trial pit (no. 2) is laid out further west, about 100 m west of the present excavation area, at a place where I have made some … continues
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