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• IIA [TER Ii.
THE A.RCHITECTURE.
[Plates I., II.]
•i 1.—Introdudory.
It will, I believe, be convenieut to preface rather than to conclude my
report by a brief summary of its Contents.
The city stood on a small liillock of limestone with low land to tbe west,
east, and sontb; on the south-west it was connected by a ridge with high
ground fnrther inland. The sea has encroached considerably on the land and
has evidently carried away a large part of the town. The town may have
been on the coast, or possibly it was some little distance inland (Fig. 1, p. 4).
Our city appears to have measured about 240 yards from east to west.
On the south side are considerable remains of a defensive wall of great
strength (Figs. 2, 16). This consists of two well-built walls, each about 2 m.
thick, parallel with one another, antl about 2 m. apart. The space between
them was filled with loose stones, thus giving a total thickness of about (i m.
or 20 feet. The most interesting feature of the great wall is a projecting
work containing a staircase. The use of this ruined building is doubtfnl;
it may have been merely a tower, or it may have protectcd a postern
gate.
The remains of buildings within the town are of threo distinct periods.
Walls were found immediately below the surface, and lloors only a few inches
lower. The foundations of these walls are for the most part shallow and
rest sometimes upon dcbris, sometimes on the remains of earlier walls.
These earlier walls are better preserved than those of the later period owing
to their having been buried in debris before the later buildings were begira.
Their foundations are carried down to the rock and in some cases the
walls remain Standing to the height of a man. Before the rock is reached,
however, a third System of walls is uncovered and these again are in
part conformable and in part unconformable with those of the succeeding
period.
Thus at different Jevels are found three series of buildings apparently
unrelated to one another except that the buiklers of one period used the
THE A.RCHITECTURE.
[Plates I., II.]
•i 1.—Introdudory.
It will, I believe, be convenieut to preface rather than to conclude my
report by a brief summary of its Contents.
The city stood on a small liillock of limestone with low land to tbe west,
east, and sontb; on the south-west it was connected by a ridge with high
ground fnrther inland. The sea has encroached considerably on the land and
has evidently carried away a large part of the town. The town may have
been on the coast, or possibly it was some little distance inland (Fig. 1, p. 4).
Our city appears to have measured about 240 yards from east to west.
On the south side are considerable remains of a defensive wall of great
strength (Figs. 2, 16). This consists of two well-built walls, each about 2 m.
thick, parallel with one another, antl about 2 m. apart. The space between
them was filled with loose stones, thus giving a total thickness of about (i m.
or 20 feet. The most interesting feature of the great wall is a projecting
work containing a staircase. The use of this ruined building is doubtfnl;
it may have been merely a tower, or it may have protectcd a postern
gate.
The remains of buildings within the town are of threo distinct periods.
Walls were found immediately below the surface, and lloors only a few inches
lower. The foundations of these walls are for the most part shallow and
rest sometimes upon dcbris, sometimes on the remains of earlier walls.
These earlier walls are better preserved than those of the later period owing
to their having been buried in debris before the later buildings were begira.
Their foundations are carried down to the rock and in some cases the
walls remain Standing to the height of a man. Before the rock is reached,
however, a third System of walls is uncovered and these again are in
part conformable and in part unconformable with those of the succeeding
period.
Thus at different Jevels are found three series of buildings apparently
unrelated to one another except that the buiklers of one period used the