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Finds - Layer 3: Rare and not very characteristic pottery; stone cylinder (Pl 25) and fragment of earring in bronze, in the S.E. corner, at 70 cm; pendant in carnelian or amber (Pl 24) in the N.W. corner, at 60 cm.
Layer 2: Rare Iron I pottery: bowls "wavy lines"; "bucchero"; projections in the form of animal heads; loom weight.
Conclusion - although in the corners, installations, walls and hearths, continue under the edge of the road, only the Iron Age is well attested.
SOUNDING XXXVIII -
Stratigraphy -
To the South:
300 cm: virgin floor, rock. Layer 7: 300-250 cm: brown earth, undermined at the centre and thickening in a cavity cut into the rock to the South. Layer 6: 250-240 cm: white floor. Layer 5: 240-195 cm: fine white earth. Layer 4: 195-190 cm: floor of white material and stones. Layer 3: 190-160 cm: to the South, fine greenish earth; to the North, bed of ashes, stones and N-S wall. Layer 2: 160-60 cm: at the centre, E-W road; on either side, brown earth with stones coming from collapsed walls. Layer 1: 60-0 cm: greyish earth.
Finds - Layer 7: MR III sherds: "red on black"; degenerate "red on red": sherds of light pottery with irregular burnishing ("pattern burnishing").
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain