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Friday 14 October 1966 Sky clouding over. At the Rampart area, the excavations continue in the axial trenches, to the 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 pools of water resulting from the recent storms. The excavations continue with fourteen pickmen, joined in the morning by Pacomios and one woman, for cleaning the low walls of the Cypriot Iron I, which are uncovered from 0 m 40 depth, to the north and south of the 5th= Street whose final Iron I surface is cleared gradually and well scraped but not further stripped, for the moment. We are lucky to find a crushed bowl apparently of the wavy line type, at the edge southern edge of the Street surface (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