Pottery with a finely burnished surface, brown to deep black or less commonly red, was plentiful among the Geometric deposits, and not scarce in the higher levels in which the pre-Mycenaean Melian predominated. The sherds found in still later deposits were isolated and must be regarded as out of place; whilst, close to the rock, which in the area excavated this year means in the middle period of the First City, they were also scarce. It belongs therefore to the early period of the Second City, and is contemporary with the Cretan Middle Minoan.