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DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE
115
View of Kirk Beza, from the southwest.
close together, so that their rear walls, which are of unusual massiveness, form parts
of an effective town wall; spaces between house walls werc walled up with massive
masonry, and a short gap between houses on the .south side was built up with a
crude but massive wall with a
small postern-gate. The main
entrance to the town, on the
north, was made between large
houses; streets are traceable in
various parts of the town, meet-
ing in a large open space in the
center.
Kirk Beza. houses. Two
houses in the line of the north
wall of the town may be taken
as examples of the type under
discussion ; they are similar in
plan and arrangement, but their
details present interesting vari-
ations. The plan of the earlier
houses, like those of Benabil and
Banakfur, is preserved here; and,
furthermore, we have, jn these
examples, in a fairly good state
of preservation, not only the
1 This plan is reduced one half from a drawing made to a scale of 20 yards to the inch. It is a sketch-plan in which
most of the salient features of the town are indicated, but which is not exact in every detail.— R. G.
N
Scale—1 cm. = 14.40 m.
Fig. 44. Plan ‘ of Kirk Beza.
Black lines, standing walls; broken lines, fallen walls: dotted lines, colonnades.
115
View of Kirk Beza, from the southwest.
close together, so that their rear walls, which are of unusual massiveness, form parts
of an effective town wall; spaces between house walls werc walled up with massive
masonry, and a short gap between houses on the .south side was built up with a
crude but massive wall with a
small postern-gate. The main
entrance to the town, on the
north, was made between large
houses; streets are traceable in
various parts of the town, meet-
ing in a large open space in the
center.
Kirk Beza. houses. Two
houses in the line of the north
wall of the town may be taken
as examples of the type under
discussion ; they are similar in
plan and arrangement, but their
details present interesting vari-
ations. The plan of the earlier
houses, like those of Benabil and
Banakfur, is preserved here; and,
furthermore, we have, jn these
examples, in a fairly good state
of preservation, not only the
1 This plan is reduced one half from a drawing made to a scale of 20 yards to the inch. It is a sketch-plan in which
most of the salient features of the town are indicated, but which is not exact in every detail.— R. G.
N
Scale—1 cm. = 14.40 m.
Fig. 44. Plan ‘ of Kirk Beza.
Black lines, standing walls; broken lines, fallen walls: dotted lines, colonnades.