Dhali-Kafkallia: Overbeck and Swiny's survey and tomb clearance (1970)

In 1970 John C. Overbeck and Stuart Swiny cleared Tomb G in the necropolis at Kafkallia and surveyed the fortified settlement on the plateau¹. In Tomb G they set out to measure and draw the tomb and to recover what the looters had left; the chamber was filled with earth, no stratification was apparent and almost everything was smashed and scattered¹. A bronze axe and a rolled-up bronze belt lay together in a covered pit beneath the floor, which Overbeck read as a secondary deposit, and he counted 13 stirrup jars among at least 26 Mycenaean vases originally present¹. He placed the end of the tomb's use near the end of the thirteenth century BC¹. The settlement, about 30 acres with a U-shaped enclosure and a square bastion, was surveyed and sherded, with Swiny directing and Jack Graham recording the houses to the south¹. Its pottery is Red Polished IV, which the report places chiefly late in Middle Cypriot III, about 1700–1600 BC, following Åström's synopsis¹. A sample collection of sherds was taken to Albany for permanent retention¹. The report appeared in 1972 as Two Cypriot Bronze Age Sites at Kafkallia (Dhali)¹.