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sherds with thick reddish slip; bone handle (Pt 33) at 250 cm; basalt grinder.
Layers 6 and 5: Abundant pottery LB II-LB III: Mycenaean sherds with lustrous decoration; carinated cups and base ring bases in fine pottery.
Layers 4 and 3: Fairly rare pottery Early and Middle Iron I: flared bowl with spiral decoration in black paint, derived from the "close style"; cups with flattened rim, horizontal lug and external grooves below the rim;
Layers 2 and 1: Rare pottery, difficult to date, perhaps Iron I final phase: degenerate "bucchero"; sherds with incised decoration and thumb-rest handles.
Conclusions -
Four levels can be distinguished, attributable to the following periods: transition from Middle Bronze to Late Bronze, - Mycenaean, - beginning of Iron I, - and perhaps end of Iron I.
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Stratigraphy -
210 cm in the North, 190 cm in the centre: virgin floor, clay. Layer 7: 210-190 cm: clayey earth. Layer 6: 190 -180 cm: white floor. Layer 5: 180-140 cm: fine greenish earth; walls of an early architectural phase. Layer 150 cm: in the North, Pt 28: legs of a skeleton. Layer 4: 150-140 cm in the centre; 140-130 cm in the North: greenish white floor. Layer 3: 130-90 cm: reddish earth. Layer 2: 90-70 cm: compact ashy earth; upper architectural phase. Layer 1: 70-0 cm: brown earth.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain