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T. D. ATKINSON
walls of the preceding age as foundation's where they coukl conveniently do
so. These phenomena ad mit of more than one exp]anation. It may be
supposed that the town was partly or wholly destroyed and perhaps deserted.
On the other hand there may have been merely a gradual and normal
rebuilding.
In the two later periods tlie buildings are laid out in an orderly and
systematic plan (Figs. 25, 42), the streets of the latest or Mycenaean period
crossing one another at right angles; they run with the cardinal points of the
compass. They are about a yard-and-a-half wide and under several of them
there is a rough stone drain to carry off the rain-water. The streets were
evidently crossed by flights of steps where the gradients were sharp. These
steps would not impede the progress of a mule, and it is clear that
wheeled vehicles were not used. The streets of the second period are
Fig. 13.—Ruinkd Walls with the Cultivated Plain and the Hills ix the
distance.
not so easily recognisable, and of the flrst period only isolated buildings
remain.
We may assume that the buildings were not packed together quite so
closely as a first glance at the plan would lead us to suppose. Doubtless
some Spaces wbich look like rooms were open courts with perhaps low walls
separating them from the narrow street. The houses of the two later periods
appear to have contained from two to four rooms; possibly some were two
storeys high. Some perhaps had cellars approached only from the inside, f'or
the absence of doorways in some walled spaces is otherwise puzzling. The
cellars may have been in some cases above ground, or, where the ground sloped,
above ground on one side and below on the other. There are some narrow
rooms or passages which may have contained staircases leading to the flat
roofs or to upper storeys.
With the exception of tlie Great Wall the most remarkable building yet
T. D. ATKINSON
walls of the preceding age as foundation's where they coukl conveniently do
so. These phenomena ad mit of more than one exp]anation. It may be
supposed that the town was partly or wholly destroyed and perhaps deserted.
On the other hand there may have been merely a gradual and normal
rebuilding.
In the two later periods tlie buildings are laid out in an orderly and
systematic plan (Figs. 25, 42), the streets of the latest or Mycenaean period
crossing one another at right angles; they run with the cardinal points of the
compass. They are about a yard-and-a-half wide and under several of them
there is a rough stone drain to carry off the rain-water. The streets were
evidently crossed by flights of steps where the gradients were sharp. These
steps would not impede the progress of a mule, and it is clear that
wheeled vehicles were not used. The streets of the second period are
Fig. 13.—Ruinkd Walls with the Cultivated Plain and the Hills ix the
distance.
not so easily recognisable, and of the flrst period only isolated buildings
remain.
We may assume that the buildings were not packed together quite so
closely as a first glance at the plan would lead us to suppose. Doubtless
some Spaces wbich look like rooms were open courts with perhaps low walls
separating them from the narrow street. The houses of the two later periods
appear to have contained from two to four rooms; possibly some were two
storeys high. Some perhaps had cellars approached only from the inside, f'or
the absence of doorways in some walled spaces is otherwise puzzling. The
cellars may have been in some cases above ground, or, where the ground sloped,
above ground on one side and below on the other. There are some narrow
rooms or passages which may have contained staircases leading to the flat
roofs or to upper storeys.
With the exception of tlie Great Wall the most remarkable building yet