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The stratigraphy can be summarised as follows: 1. Surface earth. 0 to 0.50. 2. Ashes and hard white layer (Floor I). 0.50 to 0.55. 3. Greyish earth. 0.55 to 1.00. 4. Black ashes and burnt clay (Floor II). 1.00 to 1.20. 5. Reddish earth, with horizontal sherds. 1.20 to 1.25. 6. Ashes (Floor III). 1.25 to 1.30. 7. Reddish earth with pottery. 1.30 to 1.40. 8. Superimposition of hard burnt earth, ashes, burnt limestone and gravel (Floor IV). 1.40 to 1.50. 9. Heaped stones with gaps. 1.50 to 1.90. 10. White floor (Floor V). L.90 to 2.00. 11. Rock, virgin soil, except one pocket of greenish earth. 2.00.
The surface layer, with Floor I, between 0.50 and 0.55, contains mixed material, but mostly from the beginning of the Iron Age. In the western part of the room, one found, placed on this floor, a rectangular terracotta barcasse of 0.70 x 0.45 m., a storage jar and a basalt quern.
Floor II, with the use layer above it, was poor in remains; a few sherds of Iron I and a flat biconical bead of polished black stone (Pt. 12) at 1 m. depth.
Floor III corresponds to the arrangement of the last state of the house: the room has a median row of pillar bases; the southern one is cylindrical, with a deep groove near the top, the northern one is square. The material is fairly abundant: to the West, five olive-shaped terracotta sling bullets (Pt. 67, 1.25), cylindrical loom weights of green raw clay, a polished bone stylus and a jar with ogival base; closer to the quadrangular pillar, two bowls with small ring foot, horizontal handles and flaring rim, decorated in black "wavy line" type on a light ground (Inv. no. 18 and 70), a "bucchero" jug and a polished bone stylus (Pt. 16, 1.30); a storage jar with two handles and rounded base of the "stumpy base" type, a carinated bowl, a neckless jar, a polished black stone hammer and a grey granite pebble, roughly dressed, with traces of hammering. Numerous sherds were scattered on the floor, including a carinated cup with black-red-black bichrome decoration.
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