A wall (W303; length 2.1 m; Figs. 1, 2), oriented northeast-southwest, was exposed. It was built of a single course of medium (0.20×0.45×0.50 m) and large (0.22×0.40×0.85 m) limestone blocks founded atop a thin layer of sand. A hearth (L305; see Fig. 1) was revealed in the southeastern corner of the square, to the southeast of the wall.
 
Ceramic and lithic finds dating to the Pottery Neolithic A (Lodite culture/ Jericho IX culture) were discovered in a layer of dark clay that was excavated in the square. The pottery included bowls (Fig. 3:1–8), a holemouth jar (Fig. 3:9), a jar (Fig. 3:10) and an amphoriskos (Fig. 3:11).
The finds in the fill above the elevation of the wall dated to Middle Bronze Age IIB and included bowls (Fig. 4:1–6), a concave disk base of a bowl (Fig.4:7), jars (Fig. 4:8, 9), a jug (Fig. 4:10, 11) and a base of a jug (Fig. 4:12).
 
The Lithic Assemblage
Polina Spivak
The lithic assemblage comprises 45 flint artifacts (Table 1). The assemblage is limited and represents a distinct flake industry, in which the ratio of flakes to blades is 5:1. One core and one tool were identified.
Table 1. The flint Assemblage
Artifacts
N
%
Flakes
16
36
Blades
4
9
Cores
1
2
Chunks
17
38
Primary flakes
5
11
Tools
2
4
Total
45
100
 
The core has one percussion surface and it was fully depleted. It seems to have been made from a small flint pebble. The tool in the assemblage is a denticulated sickle blade with sickle gloss on its ventral side (Fig. 5). The sickle blade and core are well-known from the Lodite culture (Jericho IX) of the Pottery Neolithic period (‘Atiqot 47:29–38).
 
A wall and hearth that are dated to the Neolithic period (Lodite culture/Jericho IX), based on the ceramic and lithic finds, as well as comparison of the elevations of the finds from this period in the 2009 excavation (Permit No. A-5658), were discovered. The finds from the Neolithic period were exposed c. 30 m southeast of the Neolithic remains from the 2009 season and they join the artifacts of that period that were recovered from other excavations in the Newe Yaraq quarter in Lod.
Above the Neolithic finds were layers of fill containing potsherds from Middle Bronze Age IIB and slag, which presumably originated in a stratum from this period that was obliterated following the removal of the surface level by mechanical equipment. Middle Bronze Age IIB remains were exposed west of the current excavation, c. 3 m above the Neolithic stratum, and included an enclosure wall and crucibles of a metal industry; this settlement had presumably continued east toward the excavation area, but did not survive.