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[handwritten: 5 1/2] c/ Pottery more rare _LB_III_ final phase: late krater or "close style"; [handwritten: 7] bowls fine white paste with double line painted on the rim; granite pestle.
Layer 1: Rare and not very characteristic pottery, probably Iron I.
Conclusions - After traces of the end of the Middle Bronze on the virgin floor, one meets a rich level of Late Bronze III, then indications of the Iron Age at the surface.
SOUNDING XVII -
Stratigraphy - Layer 2: Pt 6: 195-70 cm: in the S.E. corner, hole with brown earth. [handwritten: 70 cm underlined] 70 cm: elsewhere, virgin floor, clay. Layer 1 ter: 70-60 cm: floor; in the N.E., Pt 11: hearth of burnt earth. Layer 1 bis: 60-50 cm: new floor; " " new hearth. Layer 1: 50-0 cm: greyish earth; " " base of pithos.
Material - Layer 2 (Pt 6): _Sherds LB_II_: [handwritten: 2] neck of bottle of the "spindle bottle" type; Mycenaean sherd with parallel bands decoration.
Layer 1 ter: _Rare pottery LB_III second phase_: krater with traces of black paint; [handwritten: 2] bowl with flaring rim with double black line on the inside; carinated bowl in fine pottery.
Layer 1 bis: Rare pottery Iron I initial and intermediate: cup with flattened rim and horizontal lug; [handwritten: 2] sling bullet of baked clay; weight and pestle of basalt; pestle of granite.
Layer 1: Rare pottery Iron I final: [handwritten: 2] bowls "wavy lines" of the evolved type.
Conclusions - Apart from a hole dug artificially in the Mycenaean period, this sector was frequented only at the end of the LB and in Iron I.
Handwritten: 116
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain