Report on the soundings carried out in September–October 1958 at EnkomiH. de Contenson

Layer 5: Bronze Age period, at 100 cm depth. Layers 4 and 3: no characteristic material. Layers 2 and 1: Abundant pottery Early Per I and intermediate: fragment of ladle; bowl "base ring ware"; hemispherical cup with small horizontal handle; fragment of small basket handle.

Conclusions -

The first floor with the channel were established in the Mycenaean period, then used until the end of the Late Bronze. After 1200 B.C., construction of the E.-W. wall and series of floors of the beginning of the Iron Age.

Stratigraphy -

To the South of the sounding: xxxxxxxx: 230-210 cm: virgin floor, rock. Layer 6: 230-200 cm: compact brown earth. Layer 5: 200-180 cm: grey ashy clayey earth, with stones. Layer 4 bis: 180 cm: thin layer of ash and bones. Layer 4: 180-140 cm: clay and ashes. Layer 3 bis: 140 cm: thin layer of burnt red earth in places. Layer 3: 140-90 cm: ashy earth; numerous charcoal; top of an E.-W. wall running along the road, N.-S. wall, to the East of which are 2 jugs (Pl 3B), rim at 90 cm, base at 120 cm.

To the North: 115 cm: white floor; 115-90 cm: ashy earth. Layer 2: 90-40 cm: in the centre of the sounding, E.-W. road; on either side, brown earth with stones. Layer 1: 40-0 cm: over the whole surface, grey earth.

Material -

Layer 6: a/ Pottery MB III or RB I: "red on black"; "red on red"; degenerate "red on black"; carinated cups in light pottery; marnites with handle in the extension of the rim; sherds with lustrous slip (spout).