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Layer 2: 60-70 cm: reddish brown earth with white flecks; to the South, top of the oblique East-West road. Layer 1: 50-0 cm: brown earth.
Material -
Layers 8 to 6: Pottery rare and not very characteristic, probably of the beginning of Iron I; x I Ivory fragment (Pt 34) on the floor at 180 cm.
Layers 5 and 4: Pottery fairly abundant, Iron I initial phase: sherds of greenish pottery with brown or red decoration; sherds of white pottery with red decoration.
Layer 3: Sherds rare, Iron I intermediate phase: large jug "wavy line" of old type; cup with flattened rim and horizontal external grooves.
Layers 2 and 1: Sherds rare, not very characteristic and mixed, without doubt in part Iron I final phase.
Conclusion -
The whole history of this sounding appears to belong within the Iron Age I.
SOUNDING XIV -
Stratigraphy -
260 cm: virgin soil, rock.
Layer 7: 260-200 cm: greenish clayey earth. Layer 6: 200-140 cm: grey clayey earth. Layer 5: 140-130 cm: ashes and charcoal. Layer 4: 130-110 cm: brown burnt earth floor. Layer 3: 110-75 cm: grey ashy earth. Layer 2: 75-40 cm: grey earth mixed with brick-red earth; in the centre, superimposed juxtaposed walls. Layer 1: 40-0 cm: brown earth.
Material -
Layer 7: Pottery fairly abundant, MB III-LB I: sherds with brown decoration of wavy lines framed by lines horizontal, including a spout of a large jatte; "red on red"; "milk bowl"; "base ring ware"; cup with ring rim in lustrous cream pottery; … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain