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1.Surface earth. 0 to 0,50m.
2.Soft brown earth, with ash; top of the walls. 0,50 to 0,70
3.Hard white floor (Floor I). 0,50 to 0,75m.
4.Loose reddish earth, with ash and horizontal sherds at the lower part. 0,75 to 1,00m.
5.Hard layers alternating red earth with white specks, of lime or round pebbles (Floor II). 1,00 to 1,25m.
6.Compact red earth with white specks. 1,25 to 1,40m.
7.Red clay, top of the virgin soil. 1,40m.
The surface layer, down to 50 cm. depth, contain mixed material. This comes in part from earlier excavations, which affected this sector.
First, midway between the central plinth and the North wall, there is a cavity (Pt. 64), which is no doubt an ancient tomb and which contained, between 2 and 3 m. depth, of the Late Bronze I-II pottery, then a deposit of brownred earth with a few sherds above the rock, met at 3,30m.
Immediately north-west of the plinth, a large hole opens, which partly undermines the slabs and which contains first a kind of column drum, whose top was flush with the surface today and which lies obliquely in sterile earth (Pt. 84); only at 1,25 m. is a lead ring noted (Pt. 55). At 2 m. depth, the top of a construction in circular arc appears, indicating that it was a well; at from this level, the filling consisted solely of dressed stones, among which a second column drum, of the same dimensions as the first, and a quadrangular block with three steps, a kind of base or capital. From 6,30m. the stones are replaced by greenish silt, containing abundant pottery, and the water table was reached at 7 m. depth. All the pottery recovered from the mud is of Hellenistic type: double-stemmed handle, annular bowl base with red inner slip and red outer splashes, sherds thick in greenish fabric, - which allows the dating of the boring of this well. The infilling is therefore later than the Hellenistic period; part of the stones came from the demolition of the very walls of the well, but the weight of the stepped mass and of
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