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A fire occurred before the end of the Mycenaean period. No doubt the settlement continued immediately after the fire. Then there were some sub-Mycenaean houses, scattered, of which some fragments remain of walls higher than the foundations of the palace, but some of which no doubt date back to the end of the Mycenaean period.
The layer (but here the term is improper) the best represented is the Late Mycenaean (late Cypriot III). On the other hand the tombs are rather more often Middle Bronze, Late Bronze, Pre-Mycenaean, and sub-Mycenaean. I see no other explanation for this curious phenomenon than the fact that the poor-quality Mycenaean pottery found in the houses is older than we think and may go back perhaps jus. to the 14th c. It would then be contemporary with the tombes latest sherds of T. 2, for example. The fact that this imitation Mycenaean in its pure state is in immediate contact with Cypriot bowls … continues
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain