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This is explained by the method of the village diggers - They pierced the layers upper ones by means of narrow shafts, then, on reaching the rich layers of the Late Bronze, near the tombs, they dug real chambers and long galleries passing under the walls and the floors left in place of the upper layers - Schéma Schematic section:
Drawing: schematic section showing walls, layers, shafts, an underground gallery and a tomb cut in the rock; labels: Wall; Wall; Wall; Iron Age layers; Late Bronze layers; Rock; Tomb
This phenomenon unfortunately recurs over the whole surface in other places of the site of Enkomi and may perhaps explain the scarcity of floors corresponding to the Late Bronze tombs, at these locations -
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