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Handwritten: 111
Over the whole surface: 50 cm: virgin soil. 50-30 cm: white limestone floor. Layer 1: 30-0 cm: greyish earth.
Material - Layer 3 (Pt 2): Abundant pottery M.B. III:
Handwritten: 2 ✗ red marks
"red on black"; "red on red"; sherds with red slip sherds painted with wavy lines framed by bands horizontal straight lines; pithoi with relief decoration filled with incisions.
Layer 2: sterile.
Layer 1: sherds rare and not very characteristic, difficult to date.
Conclusions - ABOVE a pocket, where remains of the Middle Bronze have survived, a precarious installation probably of Iron I.
SOUNDING VI -
Stratigraphy - 130 cm: pockets cut into the virgin soil, one of which (Pt 17) contains [handwritten: 2 ✗ red marks] a jar, inside which was a small jug. 120 cm: virgin soil, rock. Layer 4: 120-110 cm: white floor. Layer 3: 110-100 cm: thin ashy layer in the North and centre, reddish in the South, with in the S.W., between 160 and 100 cm, a hole filled with stones (Pt 20). Layer 2: 100-30 cm: in the North and centre, reddish earth with walls of a rectangular hall and adjacent halls; in the South, E.-W. road: grey earth with stones, animal bones and sherds. Layer 1; 30-0 cm: grey earth.
Material - Layer 4: a/ R.B. I sherds in the hollows of the virgin soil: "base ring ware"; sherds with lustrous black slip; brown decoration of wavy lines framed by bands horizontal; handles of rectangular section and dark slip
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain