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It will be recalled that from the south part of room XIII[handwritten: ?] there is a sudden drop in the original bedrock. This depression continues southwards to the facade of the South Building. The deposit below floor V (the earliest) of room XIII where, on the south, it overlies the depression has not yet been examined. But a little further south the same deposit has been tested by a trial dig in room X, which has below the corresponding floor (IV), which has revealed the following results.
There is a total number of seven floors in this room but the three lowest floors (V-VII) belong to a building which is much earlier than our LCIII building. Associated with these earlier floors we uncovered a narrow wall built of small boulders and resting on the rock with floors on either side (see section CC square H-Θ)[handwritten: (Fig. 3..)]/ We dug on one side of the wall and laid bare three distinct floors, the lowest of which (VII) rests almost on the rock. The pottery brought to light in these early floors shows a strong proportion of Middle Cypriot wares (white painted, black slip, red on black) a few fragments of base- /ring I
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