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Under the bed of white material corresponding to floor 7, hearth Pt 40 extends through a pocket of fine ocher-coloured ash, surrounded by black charcoal.
Drawing: cross-section of a U-shaped pit cutting between two horizontal levels; labels: 65 cm; 170; 7; 60 cm; 225; 11; 230
This pocket is dug into the greenish clay of layer 8; the walls are heavily burnt it is certainly the kiln of the earlier floor Layer 11 of the hearth - domestic kiln, no doubt for baking bread (see p. 33)
170 to 175 cm: Layer 7: white floor - painted sherd with black decoration difficult to date (drawing) grouped with the pottery of layer 6 As noted p. 12, pottery rare in the layers 6 and 7.
175 to 195 cm: Layer 8: greenish clayey earth with abundant charcoal. 195 to 200 m: Layer 9: floor of charcoal and in places burnt earth red brick
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain