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… undisturbed, horizontally covered by the rain-flood's sand and clay strata, or directly abutting the later washed-down or by human hand brought-in layer of arable soil.
Bothroi. Within the area of the undisturbed-
Pl. IIthe Neolithic layer there are two bothroi, no. 1 in square E 2 and no. 2 in square Z 2. The former is a circular, somewhat tapering cut in the rock, seen from above, with a niche in the western wall. It has, as already mentioned, been provided with a stone setting round the edge, partly still in situ but for the most part collapsed into the pit. When the settlement was abandoned, this bothros had namely not been filled, which is why such a collapse is a natural thing. The fall into the pit has namely not reached higher than as far as layer 5 (see the drawing) whereas layer 4 consists of fallen clay and small stones over which the edgestones then fell. The layer of refuse (layer 5) … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain