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Handwritten: 34
SOUNDING XXVI -
Stratigraphy -
150 cm: Pt 15: Tomb cut into the virgin soil south of the sounding; oval pit East-West, with a niche along the south wall, in which lie 2 skeletons: one stretched on the back, head to the West, - the other huddled at the feet of the first and covered by a stone slab inclined at 45°. Near the left arm of the first, perforated ivory disc; under the head of the second, bronze bowl; above, a jug with a long neck and a common jar of medium size.
Handwritten: 2
Layer 3: 140-70 cm: fill of the pit; brown earth. Layer 2: 70-50 cm: upper part of the pit; brown earth with with abundant stones. Pt 10: tomb with a stone enclosure on the axis of the pit; skeleton stretched on its side, the skull to the East, the face to the North, the legs slightly bent. Behind the head, bronze bowl; to the South of the thorax, from East to West, common jar; late "bucchero" jug and jug with a long neck.
Handwritten: 2
50 cm: elsewhere, virgin soil, rock. 50-0 cm: Layer 1: everywhere, greyish earth.
Material -
Layer 3:and 2: Sherds mixed Late Bronze and Iron I; 2 clay loom weights of Iron I type.
Layer 1: Rare pottery Early and Middle Iron I: bowls "wavy lines" of the old type, with sober decoration; bowl with flaring rim and double black line on the inside; carinated bowl in whitish pottery; small cylindrical spout in white fabric with red decoration.
Handwritten: 2
Conclusions -
The whole installation dates to the beginning of the Iron I Age: establishment of tomb Pt 15, filling of the pit with imported materials (hence the mixture observed), then a new burial Pt 10 on the same spot, which was soon abandoned.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain