. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. ded into the main wall (Fig. 15). Further east there is another outwork of which the remains are com-paratively perfect, though its precise arrangement and use are not very clear(Fig. 16). The structure contains a staircase (Fig. 18) outside the main wall, 34 T. D. ATKINSON and at the foot of the staircase there is a doorway leading through the wallinto the town. The doorway may have formed a postern protected by thewalls in front of it and approached by a passage (Fig. 16 : 18, 19, and Fig. 17)150 m. wide. But on this hypothesis it is rather difficult to
. Excavations at Phylakopi in Melos,. ded into the main wall (Fig. 15). Further east there is another outwork of which the remains are com-paratively perfect, though its precise arrangement and use are not very clear(Fig. 16). The structure contains a staircase (Fig. 18) outside the main wall, 34 T. D. ATKINSON and at the foot of the staircase there is a doorway leading through the wallinto the town. The doorway may have formed a postern protected by thewalls in front of it and approached by a passage (Fig. 16 : 18, 19, and Fig. 17)150 m. wide. But on this hypothesis it is rather difficult to account fortlie staircase. On the other hand the outwork may have been some sortof tower or bastion accessible only from the town, in which case we mustsuppose the spaces numbered IS, 19 to have been originally filled withmason ry. The doorway, of which a conjectural restoration is shown in Fig. 19, isr35 m. Avide and its height appears to have been 2 m. The lintel wasnot found, but its size is shown by the surrounding masonry. It is. Fig. 20.—Angle ok the Town Wall. assumed that the jambs were lined with upright slabs of stone which wouldreduce the width to 1 m. The stone in the right hand jamb marked with across has a hole as if for a bolt. The staircase is 125 m. wide. The stepsare of rough stone and weie perhaps covered with plaster as at Mycenae. Onan average the rise of the steps is 25 m. and the tread 0*6 m. The main walls were built with numerous offsets or projections and theycontain several examples of the straight joints found in similar structureselsewhere, the meaning of which has not, I believe, been explained. Thegreater part of the masonry is well built with large stones roughly dressedwith the hammer, and is founded upon the rock. This is especially the casein the work of the earlier period, including the south-west angle (Fig. 20) of THE ARCHITECTURE. 35 which the quoins are particularly massive.^ Later work is not quite sogood. For instance, the small offse
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