The fabric is clayey, silty (~30% silt), porous, dark brown to red in Plain Polarized Light (PPL) with some iron accumulations and iron ooids (50-100µm). The silt contains mostly well-sorted angular quartz, poorly-sorted angular limestone and eroded flakes of feldspars. The a-plastic components consist of spherical terra rossa bowls (up to 200µm) , which include silty quartz inclusions and in addition poorly-sorted angular limestone (~5% 100-400µm), sub-angular well-sorted quartz and qartzite (~50µm), and large fragments of silicified plants, bones and eroded shells . Some of the samples of this group contain eroded basalt fragments (100-400µm)
3200-c. 550 BCE
Early Bronze Age, Middle Bronze Age, Late Bronze Age, Iron Age
