Kuss notebook: notes and sketches, Enkomi 1960R. Kuss

ENKOMI 1960

Stratigraphic notes and sketches (10 - X - to 15 - X - 1960)

Drawing: stratigraphic section showing walls, stone layers, ash layers, white floor, clay layers, hearth and bedrock, with vertical measurements on the left and lettered labels A, B, C, D in red; labels: East trench, sector 68; present surface; 1,05; Late blocking wall; Sherds "wavy lines"; Brick-red earth and white elements; Late MARGELLE; Late floor (0); A; 2^m 40; 1^m; Reddish earth layer (40 ^cm th. avg -> 30 ^cm only); Layer (1) of grey ash, charcoal and sub-Mycenaean sherds; brown-reddish earth, sherds and charcoal; (2) WHITE FLOOR non-B homogeneous; 40 ^cm; Mycenaean sherds in layer of earth C, clayey and pebbly (th. 20/25 ^cm); Grey alluvium: M. Br. sherds (3) very abundant under alluvium or floor ?; Wall M. Br.; thick.: 15 to 25 ^cm; hearth D M. Br.; natural rock

(0) The late floor, thin white or not, is at - 1^m 15 on average. (1) The layer of grey ash varies according to places from 15 to 28 ^cm thick (2) The late or sub-Mycenaean white floor has 10 to 12 ^cm thick, at about - 1^m 90 to - 2^m 0,5 depending on location (3) The greenish-grey alluvium ?, sandy, (th: 4 ^cm) seem to separate the strata, barely distinct in the control section, from the Late Bronze from the Middle Bronze, resting on the rock.