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According to the present state of the excavations it seems as if the defences of the lot ancient Bronze age & very early Iron Age town was were mainly defended directed toward against an enemy which threatened the city from the interior of the island or from the north coast and rather than from the seaside. Thus, The city of the late IInd mill. XIVth - XIe c. B.C. seems to have had the character of a harbour town with a fortified perimeter part defended against an inland attack. This o from the landside. The ceramic finds made in contact with the outerface of the western (landside) wall are all of the latest period of the town (XIIth - XIth c. B.C.). Nothing earlier or later; except there have been found some later sherds in the layers above the wall & in the alluvium soil distributed all of over the ground along the ancient town wall by the Pediaeos tous Kambia. But They have nothing to do with the wall. So far as At our present state of knowledge, the western wall was mainly used in the last period of the
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