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Friday 1st October 1965
The revelation of the morning is the bringing to light of the stratigraphy "outside the walls":
Drawing: stratigraphic section showing a hatched block on the left and horizontal layers with bricks on the right; labels: W; Surface actuelle du site; BLOC S.2; Niveau PrWPW; cf 1337; SOL + briques; Myc. III C 2; Couche grise; SOL; Myc. III C 1; BRIQUE rouge + argile verte
We were able, in the neighbouring sounding, also outside the walls, at the very foot of the large corner block (point 0) of the West Gate to reach the base of this large monolith which rests on a bed of copper slag itself on a substructure of bricks unfired red bricks = LC II B or C?
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain