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D/ Room at the North-East end of the area. Only a small part of the room which occupies the South-West corner of the crossroads was explored in 1955. The following stratigraphy was encountered there: 1. Surface earth. 0 to 0.60. 2. White floor (Floor I). 0.60 to 0.65. 3. Amorphous earth. 0.60 to 0.75. 4. Hard greyish or white layer (Floor II). 0.75 to 0.80. 5. Grey amorphous earth. 0.80 to 1.00. 6. Thick black ashes. 1.00 to 1.20. 7. Lime and beaten earth (Floor III). 1.20 to 1.25. 8. Reddish earth. 1.25 to 1.50. 9. White floor (Floor IV). 1.50 to 1.55. 10. Reddish earth, almost sterile. 1.55 to 1.70. 11. Rock, virgin soil. 1.70.
Several objects were recovered on Floor I, which continues the one met with to the South: a fragment of a bronze axe (Pt. 52, 0.60), bucchero sherds, including a very fine base, cups with ring foot, a pithos with a wide flat rim and an orifice at the base for drainage, as well as a piece of the basalt tripod found east of the street at Pt. 27.
On Floor II there were horizontal sherds of little characteristic of the end of Iron I. Floor III was richer: the ashes covering it contained a globular cooking pot with everted rim and handle (Pt. 74, 1.00), a piece of red ochre and sherds in "wavy line" style, some of which completed one of the bowls from Pt. 16, recovered on Floor III of the South room, which confirms the parallel of the stratigraphic development in this area.
On the other hand, Floor IV could date back to the end of the Bronze Recent was very é little open in the excavated part and very close to the virgin soil. [handwritten: Its dating cannot be specified.]
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