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

Layers 6 and 5: _Abundant sherds MB_III or RB_I_: jar fragments with bichrome red and black decoration; "red on black"; "red on red"; fine "base ring ware" bowls; pottery with black, brown or red coating.

Layer 4: Sherds sparse, worn, damaged by fire _RB_II-RB_III first phase_; use of the floor: Mycenaean sherds with dark brown decoration; one "red on black" sherd; one "milk bowl" sherd.

Layer 3: Abundant pottery, Iron I initial phase: krater in green pottery with black decoration of careless workmanship, derived from the "close style"; carinated cups in fairly fine pottery, black painted decoration; ring bases and conical bases.

Layer 2: Pottery fairly rare, Iron I intermediate and final: various "wavy lines" bowls; handle with double rib or figure-of-8 section; loom weights, terracotta.

Layer 1: Pottery rare and mixed.

Conclusions -

South of the road, remains of the end of the Middle Bronze have survived in a cavity of the rock: above it one finds a floor and a use layer of the beginning of the Late Bronze, then a floor of the Mycenaean period. This is covered by a layer of the beginning of Iron I, comprising north of the road a floor which is not represented to the south. Finally, installations of the middle and end of Iron I continue without a defined floor up to the surface.

stratigraphy -

Layer 4: 320-160 cm: in the N.-W. corner, well descending to the rock and filled with greenish fine earth. Layer 3: 160-100 cm: to the North reddish earth, in the centre white floor slightly sloping towards the North; to the South ashy earth.