Hellenic pottery is evidently of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries B.C. Every doubt that one may have felt regarding the great antiquity of the Hellenic pottery of the tumuli of Achilles and Patroclus will disappear on comparing it with this Bounarbashi pottery, which looks quite modern alongside of the other. Below this layer of Hellenic pottery was the stratum of the first epoch. 0.70 m. deep, with the remains of a house-wall built of small stones, and masses of that very coarse, heavy, glazed, grey or blackish wheel-made pottery, described above, which is so slightly baked that its whole fracture has a light grey colour.
In this trench I struck the natural rock at a depth of 2.50 m. In a second trench, dug on the east side of the Acropolis, I found the accumulation of débris to be only 1.50 m. deep, of which 0.60 m. belongs to the second epoch, and 0.90 m. to the first. I brought to light here the substructions of an edifice of neatly-wrought quadrangular blocks of conglomerate rock, and the same gray, black, red, or brown, glazed Hellenic pottery in the upper layer, the same very coarse, heavy, glazed gray or black wheel-made pottery in the lower. I obtained the same result in the trench I dug at the west end of the Acropolis, where the rock was reached at a depth of 2.50 m., as well as in the trench dug at the eastern extremity, where, besides the same kinds of pottery, two iron nails and a copper one were found in the upper layer; also in a shaft which I sank 3.50 m. deep in an ancient building in the Acropolis, and in other shafts which I sank in the lower city. Among the architectural curiosities of the latter I may mention a large and a small stone circle, which are contiguous. In a shaft sunk in the larger circle I found numerous fragments of Hellenic pottery, and below them the repeatedly-mentioned coarse gray wheel-made terra-cottas.
It deserves particular notice that, in all the trenches I dug and in all the shafts I sank. I found the layer of débris of the first epoch, with the coarse slightly baked
