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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: "red on black"; "red on red"; sherds with red slip, painted sherds with wavy lines framed by bands straight horizontal; pithoi with relief decoration filled with incisions.
Layer 2: sterile.
Layer 1: sherds rare and little characteristic, difficult to date.
Conclusions -
Above a pocket, where remains of the Middle Bronze have been preserved, a precarious installation probably of Iron I.
SOUNDING VI -
Stratigraphy -
120 cm: pockets dug into the virgin soil, one of which (Pt 17) contains 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 to the north and centre, reddish to the South, with to the S.W., between 160 and 100 cm, a hole filled with stones (Pt 20). Layer 2: 100-30 cm: to the North and centre, reddish earth with wall of a rectangular hall and adjacent halls; to the South, E.-W. street: 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 cavities 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 convex.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain