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… good surface finds in the form of early red-polished ware and various flints. Adjacent to this runs the furrow of a rain flood, and in the same lie lie numerous such small finds, which perhaps points towards the real settlement lying higher up the slope.
Then something extremely quite colossal happened. While sweeping the white base-chavara in Cross-section I square Γ 9 was distinguished a darker semicircle, whose missing-segment disappears into the section wall. We dig down along a diameter which divides the pit north-south. The eastern part is cleared and it becomes clear that we find ourselves at a neolithic hearth. It is of the following construction: Sunk into the chavara, which evidently formed the hut's floor-layer, is the stone-lined round the edges. The stones are all more or less burnt and the earth is strongly mixed with ash. Some charcoal is absent, but the earth is extremely … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain