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TRENCH XLII -
Stratigraphy - East of the road: Layer 7: 320-240 cm: greenish earth filling a cavity cut into the virgin rock floor. Layer 6: 240-200 cm burnt earth and stones, resting on the virgin except above the cavity mentioned above. Layer 5: 200-190 cm: series of floors of white material and burnt earth brick red, alternating. Layer 4: 190-150 cm: hearths of grey ash with charcoal and numerous horizontal sherds. Layer 3: 150-110 cm: to the East; 210-110 cm: to the West, from the rock: } fine greenish earth Layer 2: 110-60 cm: in the centre, N.-S. street, bordered by walls; on either side, red earth with particles white, with in places beds of earth greenish. Layer 1: 60-0 cm: grey earth.
Finds - Layer 7: no pottery.
Layers 5 and 6: isolated RB I-II sherds in the floors: "milk bowl"; bichrome red and black sherds; Mycenaean sherds with bright red paint.
Layer 3 bis: isolated RB I-II sherds on the rock to the West of the street: "milk bowl"; "base ring ware"; sherds with thick black glaze.
Layers 4 and 3: very abundant pottery, early and intermediate Iron I jar with white slip and dark red decoration of wavy lines; cups with black decoration; cup with thick rim, decorated with painted red chevrons grey sherd with stamped decoration; carinated cups; "bucchero" fairly fine and coarse or late; very flaring bowls, "wavy lines", primitive style; miniature jug; steatite spindle whorl; loom weight and counterweight in stone
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain