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Friday 14 October 1966 Sky clouding over. At the Rampart area, the excavations continue in the axial trenches, east and west — of the West Gate. As we quickly reach the most recent use surface of the street in the westernmost part of the trench, we gradually transfer the workmen to the section immediately east of Area 1965, a section which had been left aside because of the mud and puddles resulting from the recent storms. The excavations continue with fourteen pickmen, joined in the morning by Pacomios and a woman, for cleaning the low walls of the Cypriot Iron I, which are uncovered from 0 m 40 depth, north and south of the 5th Street whose final Iron I surface is cleared gradually and well scraped but not yet further stripped, for the moment. We are lucky to find a crushed bowl apparently of the wavy line type, at the edge of the southern surface of the Street (photo) which confirms the date of the most recent level
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain