Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . No. 28.—Copper Nail of a quadrangular shape with a disk-lilcehead, which has been cast independently of the nail and merely-fixed on it. Size 2:3; depth 8som. human industry discovered in the second city, I beginwith those found in the temple A. With the carbonized beams was found a large number 92 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. of liuge copper nails, some of which have the enormousweight of
Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881 . No. 28.—Copper Nail of a quadrangular shape with a disk-lilcehead, which has been cast independently of the nail and merely-fixed on it. Size 2:3; depth 8som. human industry discovered in the second city, I beginwith those found in the temple A. With the carbonized beams was found a large number 92 THE SECOND CITY: TROY. [Chap. III. of liuge copper nails, some of which have the enormousweight of 1190 grammes (above 2^ lbs. avoirdupois).They were doubtless used m the wooden structures ofthe terrace and the parastadcs. As may be seen from theengraving No. 28, they are quadrangular, run out at oneend into a jjoint, and have at the other end a disk-likehead, which has been cast independently of the nail andhas merely been fixed on it. Some of these largest nails were.
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