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neighbourhood of this and lower down the gradual incline on which the
town was built, the whole or part of scattered column-bases of limestone and
richly coloured black and orange conglomerate tell of good constructions.1
The Minoan town was wall-less and open, and its position on a gentle slope,

Fig. 33. Sketch-plan of Minoan Site of Visala, with Kanli Kasteli.

between the rocky ridge above H. Anna on one side and the castellated
crags of Kanli Kasteli on the other, speaks of civilized conditions.

The course of the ancient Way winds round the N.W. spur of the
Castle hill to the modern village, in the open spaces and neighbouring

1 These bases are either of the plain cylin-
drical or the stepped form showing a smaller
disk above. Two of the latter form are illus-
trated by Taramelli, op. cit., p. 347, Fig. 22,
that to the left is still in the position in which
he found it. I noted four others, one a

broken cylinder of conglomerate in the ruined
Church of H. Jannis (St. John the Baptist).
The upper surface of the largest observed, also
of conglomerate, was 48 cm. in diam., its
lower part 70 cm., and its height 42 cm., the
upper prominence being 12 cm. high.