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… were finding fragments of bronze and slag. Beside the earth, there was a bowl with concentric red circles on white ground of the sub-Mycenaean type ("Myc. III C 1") (pt. 13), a painted sherd of "Close Style" type with cross-hatching and parallel lines of the end of the 13th c. and a fragment of stylised figurine in terracotta (pt. 14), a forepart of a bull in base-ring pottery with white decoration and two small pieces of gold leaf (pt. 17), as well as large pieces of slag. Below this last point, the floor gave way to a hole dug into the virgin soil down to 1.85 depth and containing sherds of the Late Bronze, final, a fragment of a rouelle, a point and other bronze debris.
Still in the N.-W., but closer to the door, one recovered a spherical bronze weight (pt. 48) and a piece of lead (pt. 49). In the N.-E. corner, an inlaid terracotta ball with 4 stigmata (pt. 50) lay on the floor, with a thread wound round it and a bronze knife; a little to the S., in the gap in the wall which seems to be a door towards the East courtyard, a pithos (pt. 89) had collapsed onto the floor; it had been repaired anciently with lead clamps, straight or V-shaped; in the interior of this jar there were sherds of "bucchero" type. The pottery associated with this layer belongs to the end of the Late Bronze: "milk bowl", "bucchero", painted sherds of the 13th c. hooked in white pottery with red decoration with spout-pourer, lamp supports with long handle.
The same pottery appears in small fragments in the body of the floor II which, like the corresponding floor in the vestibule, is composed of a series of floors staggered between 1 m and 1.25 to 1.30. Each of these floors had been well cleaned before laying the next ; however, some objects were recovered: in the N.-W. corner, at 1.10, an ivory disc (pt. 57); in the S.-W. corner, a stone (carved in the shape of a bird), at 1.25 (pt. 86); in the S.-E. corner, at the limit of the foundation trench, at 1.10, a bronze arrowhead (pt. 87).
Below this floor, the compact earth layer (layer 6) contains a certain number of small sherds of Middle Bronze III (pt. 56), similar to those found in the vestibule, between 1.25/1.30 and
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