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thin deposit with LCI/features but no architectural remains at the two points where the bedrock has been reached, in room VI and partly in room III.(1) Whatever the nature of this deposit is, it must be of short duration and poor quality.[handwritten: (2)]
We also found evidence that the site had been used as a cemetery. One of the tombs found in the eastward extension of the excavated area, we found a Middle
Handwritten: does not anything for pre cemetery
Cypriot tomb and a second one probably of the same period, which had been entirely emptied of its contents and had a LCIII wall built in it.
Another tomb was found immediately outside the northern facade of the compound which passed along the edge of the dromos (Pl. XXIV, 1). This tomb had already been visited by looters who took the precious objects and left the pottery, most of it smashed. A preliminary examination shows that the tomb belongs to the LCII period; it contained much Levanto-Mycenean pottery and ceased to be in use at the end of the period: It therefore antedates the construction of our compound. The builders of the latter must have been aware of the existence of the tomb and took care
(1) In room XXVII of the Main Building we found a pit xxx with LCII contexts.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain