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in the photograph reproduced in Fig. 261, which has therefore a certain
historic interest, though the analogies supplied by subsequent researches in
the Domestic Quarter and elsewhere indicate that the base block at this end
of the balustrade had in fact supported a wooden column. Owing to the
disappearance of this, the sinking of the upper block has been considerable,

Fig. 261. Balustrade, with Surface Block above, in position as found; seen from
'Room of Wooden Posts'. Doorway to Lower E.-W. Corridor visible to left. The Topmost
Landing-Block of the Grand Staircase is seen in the background.

and its original level, at present 3-10 metres above the pavement below, must
have been just a metre higher-—on the same level, that is, as the floor of
the first story of the Domestic Quarter.

The balustrade itself showed the usual gap for a woodwork framing,
here restored, beneath its gypsum coping slabs. On the North side of