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layer of filling consisting of limestone flakes and gravel, which must have been collected from the place where the limestone blocks were dressed.
The pottery found in this filling (743 and 746 on Pl. XLIX) contains monochrome, base-ring II and white slip II wares in good quantities as well as a few fragments of Levanto-Mycenean ware (746 a, 743 a, b on Pl. XLIX, 4). But it also contained Mycenean IIIC: 1 fragments (743 c, e, 746 c, e on Pl. XLIX, 4, XLVIII) which give a date for the fill in the twelfth century. Of course the proportions of white slip II and base-ring II are somewhat higher than would be expected in the IIIC, (1) but in a fill of this kind disused pottery from earlier deposits is liable to be introduced during the collection (possibly excavation) of the filling material. It is noteworthy that this twelfth century fill which brought the floor level upto that of the Main Building was in almost immediate contact with a floor or deposit containing a Mycenean IIIB fragments of the end of the fifteenth century.
(1) C.f. Stögvist, Problems, 135.
Handwritten: beds floor Harvey in
Handwritten: IIIB–IIIC
Handwritten: signature
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain