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Table 1: Simplified chronology of ceramics from the trench in Sector RPeriod Date range Identified sherds PercentLate Iron Age-Early Hellenistic 550 BC-151 BC 43 03.37Hellenistic 330 BC-51 BC 214 16.76Late Hellenistic/ Early Roman 150 BC-AD 199 117 09.16Early Roman 50 BC-AD 199 162 12.69Early/Middle Roman 50 BC-AD 399 185 14.49Middle Roman AD 200-AD 399 115 09.00Late Roman AD 400-AD 599 176 13.78Late Roman/ Early Byzantine AD 400-AD 899 94 07.36Early Byzantine AD 600-AD 899 171 13.39TOTAL 1277 100Floor Surfaces and PitsFloor surfaces in different parts of the trench can be dated to the lateroccupation levels prior to the disturbance event. Vincent Clark drawsattention to three series of floor surfaces – contexts 5, 15 and 21, presentin the south/west side of the trench. These consist of compacted earthand mortar, incorporating broken pottery and stone as a core. From thesecontexts the pottery is highly fragmented and ranges in date from Hellenisticto Early Byzantine. It might be that this area represents a public, outdoorsarea, perhaps the cobbled paving of an alleyway. In the northern part of thetrench, the surfaces suggest more of an indoors context. Two beaten earth andmortared floor surfaces (contexts 41 and 42) are associated with two parallelwalls (contexts 37 and 39). From a pit (context 38) which cuts through the westedge of these surfaces and is associated with the robbing of wall context 39,the ceramics are larger, more intact: 124 sherds weighing slightly over 2kg,while in the ‘floor fill’ contexts there are numerous fragmentary sherds, incontext 21 are 824 sherds weighing 4.4kg. In another pit (context 35) which isdug into contexts 41 and 42 there are lots of Early Roman finewares, though no112