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EAST WALL OF EASTERN LIGHT-WELL

Reoccu-

pation

wall.

was replaced, apparently, not long after its overthrow by the existing,

somewhat narrower wall—70
centimetres in place of about
90 — the base of which is
separated from the remains of
the earlier wall-line by a de-
posit of red earth about 12
centimetres deep. (See Fig.
250.)

That this later wall was
itself of comparatively early-
date appears from the result of
careful explorations made in
1929, of the material beneath
its base at two points—each
about a metre in length—and
which proved exclusively to
contain sherds of M. M. Ill
fabric. We may conclude with
great probability that this wall
formed part of the work of
restoration carried out in the
post-seismic phase of that
Period. Throughout most of
its length only two courses of
it had been preserved above
ground, and along; the two sides
of these immediately above the
ground level, that there oc-
curred considerable deposits of
painted stucco belonging to
the ' Dolphin Fresco', that in
a special manner distinguished
the ' Queen's Megaron' in its
original state.

Inside the limits of these earlier walls, and approaching the borders of
the Portico, were further remains of a third wall of bad construction and at
a somewhat higher level, which from associated fragments was clearly the
work of squatters of the Reoccupation Period, and it looks as if these had

Fig. 250. East Wall of Light-well, ' Queen's

MeCARON ', SHOWING BASE OF EARLIER WaLL BELOW.