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SOUNDING 0 -
Stratigraphy -
South part: 90 cm: virgin floor, clay. Layer 2: 90-60 cm: ash and grey burnt earth. Over the whole surface: Layer 1: 60-0 cm: brown earth.
Material -
Layer 2: a/ Isolated MB III sherds in contact with the virgin floor: bowl "red on black", worn; handle with rectangular profile and red painted stripes. b/ Late LB III pottery, second phase: characteristic with matt painted spirals and chevrons, Late Mycenaean or "close style"; flaring bowls in fine white or light pottery with matt painted horizontal parallel lines; ring bases in fine white pottery.
Layer 1: a/ Abundant pottery of initial and intermediate Per I: bowl with straight rim, flat base, horizontal painted decoration; carinated cups with horizontal painted decoration; bowl with flaring rim and broad wavy red band on the exterior. b/ Abundant final Per I pottery on the surface: bowls with evolved "wavy lines" decoration ("granary style").
Conclusions -
A few isolated sherds are the trace of a first occupation at the end of the Middle Bronze. There follows a thick layer of Late Mycenaean, with hearths or a fire layer, then a settlement at the beginning of the Iron Age, which gradually evolves until the abandonment of the town in the 11th c. B.C.
SOUNDING I -
Stratigraphy -
Layer 2: looted tomb in the S.E. corner; elsewhere virgin clay at 30cm Layer I bis: 30-10 cm: stone raft. Layer 1: 10-0 cm: crumbly earth.
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