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… is of a later date than the large rooms in the centre of the palace. The quarry pit had then lain outside the palace and been taken into use for rubbish. Later, the palace was ex- tended over this. The finds under the floor become then important from the point of view of dating, and since the cultural deposit appears to be entirely natural, the lowest objects and the pottery must have come into the earth before the upper ones; how much is however impossible to say. Under such circumstances it is obvious that a different principle should be followed in the excavation. Not an arbitrary figure but the natural layers, in particular the black burnt layers, are therefore, despite their steep slope, what is followed in the excavation of square B, one metre on the other side of the section line. The dark find-rich layers are numbered from the top, 1-4.
Regarding the position of the finds and the levelling figures see separate special plan. 3 53 B1 … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain