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c/ Rarer pottery, RB III final phase: late krater or "close style"; bowls, fine white paste, with double line painted on the rim; pestle in granite.
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.
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Stratigraphy - Layer 2: Pt 6: 195-70 cm: in the S.E. corner, hole with brown earth. 70 cm: elsewhere, virgin floor, clay. Layer 1 ter: 70-60 cm: floor; in the N.E., Pt 11: hearth in 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 RB II: neck of bottle of the "spindle bottle" type; Mycenaean sherd with parallel band decoration.
Layer 1 ter: Rare pottery RB III second phase: krater with traces of black paint; bowl with flaring rim, double black line on the inside; carinated bowl in fine pottery.
Layer 1 bis: Rare pottery, initial and intermediate Iron I: cup with flattened rim and horizontal lug handle; sling bullet in baked clay; weight and pestle in basalt; pestle in granite.
Layer 1: Rare pottery, final Iron I: 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 RB and in Iron I.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain
