Area N1W – Removing the Late Bronze Age III Destruction Layer 

One of the main goals of the 2023 season in area N1W was to remove the Late Bronze Age III destruction layer in order to expose the earlier Late Bronze layers and the Middle Bronze Age levels below it.

It was interesting to find in one spot the Persian period re-use immediately above parts of the Late Bronze III destruction layer. That, while in other spots, on top of the Late Bronze Age destruction, an olive-pressing room from the Iron IIC and the Iron IIB destruction (as evident from the burnt mudbrick still in situ) were found – both in past seasons.