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Petra III… mot A shows its appearance best. A huge stone lies directly against the rock. It had lain there already before the floor was laid . Some other larger stones are placed in a circle around a base of flat slabs and beach stones. The whole is filled with a c. 20 cm thick fire layer of dung character. In this, however, no finds were made. The excavation was hampered by heavy rain. Above the earth floor followed soft deposits of the same character, as described earlier from Petra I, among them a continuous c 8 cm thick dark black layer House 2 in Petra III lies straight over the earth floor, which constitutes Petra II, and thus fits into the relative chronology. That house 1 in Petra III is also of later date than the earth floor is however proven also in another way than through its similarity with house 2. The earth floor is namely cut off in the east in connection with the construction of house 1 (Square B3, see the sections towards A and B.)
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