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The preliminary pottery reading suggests Bronze Age and Iron Age pottery as wellas Hellenistic sherds. Seton-Williams (1954: 159) reported Hittite, Hellenistic andRoman pottery.Site No. 44; Site Name: Büyükdere (Ada Tepe, Haram Çeş, Aynul Haramiya,‘Ayn al-Haramiya) (Map 2)UTM East 234580; UTM North 4046770; Dating: Pers/Hell – Hell - Rom – ByzSettlement remains on a low hill forming a cape at the coast. The site reachesdown to the beach. The modern road cuts into the site exposing walls and mosaics.A dense concentration of roof tiles and pottery was found at the beach and on thelow mound. Current road constructions caused salvage excavations conductedin Spring 2006 by the Antakya museum. These excavations exposed domesticarchitecture in the beach area (234615.4046478) that dates to the Byzantine periodexclusively. This area was the sea side edge of the site. Earlier pottery, mainlyHellenistic and Roman is concentrated on the low mound east of the modern roadand covers most of the site. According to Seton-Williams, the site was investigatedby M. Chammas in 1930-31 (but Chammas apparently worked in fact at Esentepein İskenderun, see Hellenkemper and Hild 1986: 113 n. 69). Seton-Williams (1954:147 with references) reported Hellenistic and Roman pottery. The name Seton-Williams gave the site, Ada Tepe, is not used by the local population. Ada Tepe isin fact the name of a high hill overlooking the region further to the south. The localname of the site is Büyükdere. South of the low mound is a higher hill, site 94,Pınar Tepe, with some Alawite tombs overlooking the site at a height of 69 m. Onthe hill we found Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and Persian period pottery.Site No. 45; Site Name: Dağılbaz Höyük (Figs. 1, 2)UTM East 242900 UTM North 4046000; Dating: MB - LB - IA – Pers – Hell- ByzLarge höyük near Kışla Köy with steep slopes on all sides. Illicit excavations onthe top of the site exposed large boulders that seem to be part of a monumentalstructure. Walls that were probably fortifi cations are visible in cuts and around theslopes. The top of the site is approximately 200x100 m. Below the höyük thereare settlement remains around the mound to the north and to the east. Among thesmall fi nds were a female terracotta fi gurine, the foot of a terracotta bull fi gurine,and a Late Helladic IIIC sherd (Fig. 2).173