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Another separate zone of the plateau is located further to the east (East Cemetery2). Recent looting has brought up monumental marble blocks strewn over theground. One set of tombs consisting of in situ monumental blocks forming a cistlining and two sarcophagi (F067) was originally investigated in 200<strong>1.</strong> 9 These tombswere exposed initially by looting and have been looted again since.To the north of East Cemeteries 1 and 2, the plateau previously known as the‘eastern necropolis’ also contains remnants of some graves (East Cemetery 3).These especially line the edge of the plateau, facing Pessinus. This area too hassigns of non-funerary activity, such as possible fortification walls which wereinvestigated in 2010 through geophysical (ground penetrating radar) survey.FortificationsThe lack of circuit walls around Pessinus can be regarded as unusual fora city with major Hellenistic and Late Roman occupation phases. Instead,a defensive system might have been formed by a series of hilltop forts andwatchtowers. Investigating the position and nature of these fortificationswas an objective of surveys in 2009 and 2010, including ground survey andgeophysical prospection. This has identified at least nine areas of fortificationin the immediate Pessinus area.Prehistoric PessinusFour flaked stone implements were found to the south of the temple area/Sector B, near the village’s southern spring. The lithics were on the surface ofa heavily eroded section of track that leads southwards towards Sector R, andthe find spots are all within an area of no more than 40 m². Two of the flakesare black obsidian; the other two are a fine, white stone (chalcedony?), one ofwhich is a notched, denticular tool. The proximity of these finds to each other,their materials and morphology and the lack of knapped stone tools acrossthe Pessinus area suggests a discrete deposit. The finds are provisionallydated from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age.9 Devreker et al. 2003, 156.118