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buildings of which seem to be orientated differently from those of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age levels ( levels II and I).
Tombs, some intact, have been found belonging to all three levels of the town, several beeing family vaults, built under the ground floor of the dwellings.
During the excavation of 1946 and 1947, it has been establisshed that the town at Enkomi was surrounded by a defensive stone wall of considerable strength ( 6), a Part of the south wall was excavated and the north wall traced by two sonmdings. The south wall consists of two facings and a rubble fill. For the outer facing, huge blocks (some measuring 11 feet long and 7 feet high) have been assembled without mortar. The inner facing is made of smaller stones and a clayisch earth mortar. The wall was built in several phases during which the technique differed slightly. As far as the present evidence goes (mainly pottery) the south wall was built in the late Mycenaean period (XIII th.C.), but it is possible that part of it was begun during the XIVth.c.
In the west part of the town site, workshops and bronze founderies of the second millenium were found, and the find spot of the Enkomi copper ingots war identified ( 7). It becomes now evident that these copper ingots, bearing impressed Cypro-mycenaean letters belong to the early Iron Age town (XIIth-XIth c.B.C.) and not to the Late Bronze Age as admitted hitherto ( 8). It is also certain that the activity of the bronze foundries and copper mines in Cyprus was not interrupted as the begining of the Iron Age. Our finds at Enkomi indicate, on the contrary, an increased activity of the … continues
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