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and also levelled for the construction of a new hearth with square platform, supported by a low wall of earth coated with white . The latter covered with clayey-ashy strata is replaced by a longer double hearth, of rectangular plan F2 . A new destruction bringing a very dense layer of "konnos" leads to the establishment of the terminal hearth F1 of 911, similar to the previous one. This stratification presents two opposing characteristics: the tradition always respected of the location chosen for the main hearth and evolution of usage. Indeed, from the circular building in hard and thick coating of F4 we pass to the use of a square hearth in whitened earth and covered with sherds. F3 Then less care is taken over the installation of the hearths F1 and F2: these are merely simple surfaces roughly rectangular, covered with sherds But here the problem is more complex because these hearths are double, with in their west half a reddish zone with with core of clay (pillar ?) central , unfired, which seems to have undergone a moderate fire. Whereas the second hearth situated to the east , built with less care, and covered with white ashes
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