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ight, and below). We don’t know what was exactly it’s using in that verynarrow space. At the end of the campaign, a new phase was excavated belowthis level, with a one meter thick layer of burned bricks (01267), carbonizedfragments of beams. This level belongs maybe to the Porsuk VI phase, oldHittite, badly preserved at Zeyve, for the moment. But we have of course toconfirm that.II. Chantier II. West Part of the Höyük (Fig. 7)In the fortifications area of the west part, the enlargement of the excavationsto the north has permitted to find and to precise the plan of a new tower ofthe fortification system of the Late Bronze Age (G05-G06), below the walls ofthe Iron Age (Fig. 7-8). In particular, below the big wall 16, from which thenorthern face has been removed, made mostly of heavy pebbles. Inside thewalls of the tower, which seems to be quadrangular in plan, the excavationsin the kerpiç destruction layer have shown that the western and northernwalls were much thicker in the lower than in the upper part (03089-03090).In the destruction layer, some burned wooden beams appear, remains of awooden floor lying on a filling of yellow sandy earth (Fig. 9). The relationbetween these upper beams and those discovered on a Late Bronze Age floordownstairs, more to the south, three years ago 3 , remains to explain by moreinvestigations on that point in the summer 2008, we hope so.A sounding at the foot of the northern face of the tower have shown aheight of more than 4, 50 meters preserved of the wall (Fig. 10), with a kerpiçsuperstructure on a stone basement, gypsum and sandstones, but badly builtor much disturbed !In that area, like elsewhere at Zeyve, we still have many things to do.3 Cf. Anatolia Antiqua XIV, p. 238-239, pl. 23-24 and 28. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı 1, 2006, p. 638, fig.13.387