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wall (Fig. 4): inside were about 25 litres of carbonized barley seeds. Beside thejar was also found a mass of iron with a band of bronze. Is it possible that wehave there a kind of foundation deposit? Or maybe more plausible there wasa kind of niche inside the wall giving access to the jar? We don’t have foundany trace of an intermediate floor inside the big and very dark destructionlayer. At the foot of this wall, to the west, there are many sherds of brokenHittite jars, a red lustrous pot, a bracelet and a chisel (Fig.5). The level mustbe that of Porsuk V, destroyed at the end of the Late Bronze Age, but somedendrochronological samplings (from the Cornell University Laboratory,New York, now directed by Sturt Manning) seem to indicate a 17th centurydate. These dates are of course to be confirmed by more samplings of thatarea.A small sounding below the floor of the kazamat has shown a yellow layerof earth with pebbles and few remnants of a wall belonging to the level VI,from Old Hittite period. Some other wall fragments from the same level arenow also visible below the kazamat 1 (Fig. 2).In that area (kazamat 1), some remains of the Iron Age period appeared: awall with kerpiç superstructure, including the lime plaster, built on the top of aLate Bronze Age wall, connected with wall 04091. There, some pits have muchdestroyed the area. The material includes an iron item with wooden handleand some painted Iron Age sherds. Below, we found the north wall (04099)of the kazamat of the Late Bronze Age. More to the north, the filling of yellowearth and pebbles well known indicate that a third kazamat was built there,giving confirmation that we have there an elaborate fortification system.3862. On the North Part of the Chantier IV: the Stratigraphic Sounding (H42, Fig. 1)Last year, a wall with a strange mixing of gypsum stones, pebbles andfragments of reused bricks, was cleared up (01235, Iron Age, Fig. 6, above,left). It was built on a wall of the Late Bronze Age (01252), but the level therehave not showed any destruction by fire like in the other parts of the site. Thewall, connected with another one (01257), was well built with faces of gypsumand regular sandstone blocks with a filling of more small material. Below thelevel of the floor (01261), a thin layer of destruction material (burned kerpiçfragments, ashes…) overlays a level with a long solid mass of earth withmud coating. Inside was set a pottery trough, partially burned (Fig. 6, above,