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- Layer 2 1 jug, buff ware, red decoration of concentric semicircles; a strainer spout, side handle (Pt 26) (Inv No 106) 1 jug, buff ware with cream slip, with dark brown decoration; cylindrical spout at the shoulder (Pt 26) (Inv No 107) 1 cup in mauve ware with concentric decoration red inside and outside, foot formed of a simple ring (Pt 26) (Inv No 108) 1 iron sickle (Pt 27) (Inv No 109), 1 iron tool (Pt 27) (Inv No 110) | Pottery, beginning of Iron I (1200-1150) | "close style"
In final analysis, apart from the few "milk bowl" sherds found on the rock, all the material from Trench XLVI seems to belong to the transition from Late Bronze to Iron, that is to say end of LB III - beginning of Iron I (1225-1150); this material is therefore grouped.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain