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or, as generally assumed, a bay, and thus may have afforded protection to
the town from tlüs quarter. Tlie necessity for some such protection is
suggested by the fact that the great town wall, very massive in constrnction,
of which tbere are considerable remains at the sonth-west angle of the town,
is not found on tbe east side. But in tbis part no excavation has been done
beyond a few trial trencbes, and tbe point is not wortb discussing tili tbe
ground has been completely explored.

§ 4.—The Toion Wall.

Of the great defensive wall of tbe town a lengtb of about one hundred
naetres remains standing to a height of some four metres or so. Almost the

Fio. ],">.—The Town Wall lookino West, showin<; an Offset. in the Wokk of Period II.
and Bastion of Period III. isuilt üf aoainst it. (See Plates I. and II. B 5.)

whole of tbis length runs due east and west. Eastward it dies away in
ruin, but the western end takes a turn nortbwards, and about ten metres
further on is stopped abruptly by tbe cliff which overhangs the sea. It
seems clear that tbis turn in the great wall indicates one of the augles of
the city.

No part of the wall has been assigned to the period to which the earliest
houses belong; in one place it is built over a thin house-wall of that period
(Plate I, B 5), but it is very doubtful whetber the overlying wall is of the
second or of the third period. Speaking generally, it is supposed that the