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And I must confess that at that time judging from what Dr. Schaeffer had said to me and from the preliminary reports on his Enkomi excavations. I had taken it for granted that all the buildings with ashlar masonry were of LCII date. I must therefore assure Dr. Schaeffer that the change in my dating of the compound is only the result of my study of the pottery and of other evidence and nothing more. In fact Mr. Megaw may remember my original surprise when I reported to him that I was tracing in the abrda LCIII material on the earliest floor of the compound. Mr. Megaw has followed closely my study of the material while I was preparing my Report and may confirm my statement in this respect.
I will now pass to the specific points dealt with in Dr. Schaeffer's analysis, in regard to which he finds in the results of our excavations evidence justifying a 14th century date for the compound in its original form. I should like to assure him that in the light of his comments I have once again carefully reconsidered the evidence with that conclusion in view. Although I will check up everything again I cannot at present find that that conclusion is preferable to my dating. In referring to the points raised by Dr. Schaeffer my purpose is then to correct some misapprehensions about the evidence recorded in my report and to give him additional reasons why I concluded that the compound belongs to the LCIII period. But if Dr. Schaeffer can provide (apart from his interpretation of my own material) stratigraphical and ceramic evidence from his own excavations to the effect that all the buildings with ashlar masonry are of LCII date, the objections to an early dating of our compound (objections which I will mention presently) will have less weight and finally if further digging proves that I was mistaken, I shall be ready to revise my dating without any hesitation.
Room XIV Floor V. The hearth under which the deposit of abrda was found belongs to the time
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