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… outer (seaward) half of the room-met. Between these parts there thus arises a earth wall, where the floor's substructions are studied in detail. A layer section here at a suitable spot gives the following result:
| 1 | 2,20 m | Black surface layer |
| 2 | 2,00 m | Grey coarse mud-brick fragments with red earth |
| 3 | 1,75 m | Double cement floor |
| 4 | 1,65 m | Fill of larger and smaller stones |
| passing downward into light earth | ||
| 5 | 1,27 m | Dark brown sterile earth |
| 6 | 0,97 m | Fill of small stones and gypsum lumps |
| 7 | 0,75 m | Dark brown base earth with geom. pottery |
| 8 | 0,00 m | The rock |
In this section the most remarkable thing is the thick, lowest layer, lying nearest the rock, of dark brown bottom earth, which, in contrast to what is otherwise common in such layers, here contains numerous pottery. This seems entirely to be of quite old date. Remarkable are some … continues
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