So, Irving lived during the Iron Age and was homeless and put all his worldly possessions in this great tabune (basically a stove) that he had made and set off to wander the western Galilee. He's just kinda walking around when he hears this rumor that there's an old Bronze Age palace in ruins near by and he figures he can set up camp there for a while. So he wanders over and finds these great old stone walls, many of which have fallen over, and set down his tabune and all his stuff on top of some of the rocks, but sheltered by the remnants of a wall. He's just chilling there when the wall supposedly providing shelter falls down, crushing his tabune and all his other clay pottery possessions in it. Bummer. So Irving the Iron Age Man moves on, leaving his precious tabune crushed between two layers of rock and debris.
3300 years later, Sarah Hoptman is excavating at Tel Kabri trying to pick axe her way down to the bronze age wall she should be above (or to China, unclear what the end goal really is) when she finds this MASSIVE amount of pottery. They stop pick axing and start to articulate it and realize that it is an iron age tabune ... at a bronze age site.
Ok, CLEARLY Irving and his sad tale are made up, but what the bloody hell is an iron age tabune with POTTERY (not normal stove stuff like, um, ashes???) doing in the middle of debris of a BRONZE AGE structure? Without ANY other iron age settlement??? And who sets up an INDOOR STOVE outside ANYWAY? A squatter, that's who! Hence the story of Irving.
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