ocr: plan was uncovered in the area cleared, but the appearance of the remains suggests that they belong to domestic buildings. Finds from the thin, worn floors were few and difficult to date accurately, but they include coarse potsherds that recall those found in fifth and fourth century B.C. contexts elsewhere in Palestine. Moreover, from a series of occupation levels overlying these early walls came pottery of the third and second centuries B.C., including fragments of black- glazed Hellenistic lamps and coins of the same general date. It seems reasonable to suggest, therefore, that the unpreten ...