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D. G. HOGARTH
part of thc Great-Wall is of a period earlier thau the Second City. If the low
retäining wall, that faces it, was really built to define an outer ditch (rendered
perhaps necessary here by the absenceof such precipitous slopes as strengthen
the walls of Mycenae or HissarKk) it will pertain to the same period as the Wall-.
A thin layer of däbris survived in the bed of the ditch, but we must suppose
that the overlying deposit all belongs to a much later period, that namely of
the decadence of the town. So long as the Great Wall served a serious pur-
pose of defence, its outer ditch would not have been suffered to be choked
by rubbish thrown out of the town.
Tlie character and plan of the Wall itself are discussed below by Mr.
Atkinson and do not concern us here. No single object worth record, except
perhaps a piece of lead—rare metal on this site—-was found either in its
intra-mural spaces or outside it. It remains only to record the Operations
undertaken subsequeutly (in 1898) for determining its direction and character
Fig. 3.—The Site fkom N.E. Beach of Boui-ders in tue Foreground.
eastward of the farthest point openedin 1897. These Operations were entirely
inconclusive, partly owing to local circumstances. A precipitous talus,
sloping into cultivated fields, defined the lirait of the site to eastward, but no
ridge here stood up above the general level of the plateau, as was the case
on the west. On the brink of tliis talus nothing in the form of a really
massive fortification could be traceJ. The inner face of a well built wall
was, indeed, revealed at various points, approximately in a hne with the
inner face of the fortification at the west end : but in J 5 this ended in an
oblong Chamber Avhich, if a wall of fortification be really in question, must
have been the inner outline of a terminal bastion, built where the rampart
returned northward to the sea. The sherds found in abundance near the face
of this line of wall were all of the latest period : but we did not clear to a
greater depth than one metre. Trenches, however, sunk in the slope of the
D. G. HOGARTH
part of thc Great-Wall is of a period earlier thau the Second City. If the low
retäining wall, that faces it, was really built to define an outer ditch (rendered
perhaps necessary here by the absenceof such precipitous slopes as strengthen
the walls of Mycenae or HissarKk) it will pertain to the same period as the Wall-.
A thin layer of däbris survived in the bed of the ditch, but we must suppose
that the overlying deposit all belongs to a much later period, that namely of
the decadence of the town. So long as the Great Wall served a serious pur-
pose of defence, its outer ditch would not have been suffered to be choked
by rubbish thrown out of the town.
Tlie character and plan of the Wall itself are discussed below by Mr.
Atkinson and do not concern us here. No single object worth record, except
perhaps a piece of lead—rare metal on this site—-was found either in its
intra-mural spaces or outside it. It remains only to record the Operations
undertaken subsequeutly (in 1898) for determining its direction and character
Fig. 3.—The Site fkom N.E. Beach of Boui-ders in tue Foreground.
eastward of the farthest point openedin 1897. These Operations were entirely
inconclusive, partly owing to local circumstances. A precipitous talus,
sloping into cultivated fields, defined the lirait of the site to eastward, but no
ridge here stood up above the general level of the plateau, as was the case
on the west. On the brink of tliis talus nothing in the form of a really
massive fortification could be traceJ. The inner face of a well built wall
was, indeed, revealed at various points, approximately in a hne with the
inner face of the fortification at the west end : but in J 5 this ended in an
oblong Chamber Avhich, if a wall of fortification be really in question, must
have been the inner outline of a terminal bastion, built where the rampart
returned northward to the sea. The sherds found in abundance near the face
of this line of wall were all of the latest period : but we did not clear to a
greater depth than one metre. Trenches, however, sunk in the slope of the