Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . B ///x//////////y//////////////// nock No. 1565. Section Bhowing Diagonal Fissuring of Wood-ashes under brick-floor Altar. App. IV.] BY MR. FRANK CALVERT. 717 buttresses which flanked the entranceas well as the entrance itself. At thesame time, a second inner wall, builtpartly on the foundations of themassive wall, curves inward, enclosing. No. 1566. Footprints of a Kid on a fragment ofsun-drie
Ilios; the city and country of the TrojansThe results of researches and discoveries on the site of Troy and throughout the Troad in the years 1871-72-73-78-79, including an autobiography of the author . B ///x//////////y//////////////// nock No. 1565. Section Bhowing Diagonal Fissuring of Wood-ashes under brick-floor Altar. App. IV.] BY MR. FRANK CALVERT. 717 buttresses which flanked the entranceas well as the entrance itself. At thesame time, a second inner wall, builtpartly on the foundations of themassive wall, curves inward, enclosing. No. 1566. Footprints of a Kid on a fragment ofsun-dried brick. a space in the shape of a tongue about15 feet in diameter. The entrance tothe sacred enclosure was formed by anarrow passage between the extremityof this tongue and the massive wall. Aquantity of burnt bricks was found here, as well as outside the low curvedwall and also within it. A section of a portion of the moundfrom south to north, given in the cutNo. 1567, will illustrate the statementsjust made, and render them easier tounderstand. We have first of all thenatural rock (No. 1567,1); then comesa stratum of sundried bricks (No. 15C7,2), 1 foot in thickness. The uniformlybright red colour of these shows thatthey have been subjected to a strongheat. Next (No. 1567, 3) follows astratum of clay, representing the de-composed sun-dried bricks which havefallen from the walls, of which onlythe lower part has been thickness of the portion of the
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