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Trench XLIV: Stratigraphy: 0 to 30 cm: surface brown earth: layer 1 30 cm: south part, top of road E-W. 30 to 60 cm: reddish brown earth with | layer 2 white specks 60 to 65 cm: layer of hard earth grey, with lime and ash, representing a floor: layer 3 65 to 90 cm: reddish brown earth: layer 4 90 to 120 cm: layer of destruction or floors; beds of black ash and earth burnt brick-red: layer 5 120 cm: excavation stopped on a layer more compact, probably floor; architectural level.
Material: Pottery rare and not very characteristic Layers 1 and 2: pottery not very characteristic fragments of a large jar painted, probably L.B.; mixed pottery. Layers 3 and 4: sherds rare and not very characteristic. may be Iron I. Layer 5: pottery more abundant, sherds finer but no characteristic shape. probably early Iron I.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain