Schliemann, Heinrich: Troy and its remains: a narrative of researches and discoveries made on the site of Illium, and in the Trojan Plain (London, 1875)

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CHAPTER IV.

Another passage from the Stone Age to copper implements mixed with
stone — The signs of a higher civilization increase with the depth
reached — All the implements are of better workmanship — Dis-
covery of supposed inscriptions — Further discussion of the use of
the whorls — Troy still to be reached — Fine terra-cotta vessels of
remarkable forms — Great numbers of stone weights and hand mill-
stones — Numerous house-walls — Construction of the great cutting
— Fever and quinine — Wounds and arnica.

On the Hill of Hissarlik, November 18th, 1871.

Since my report of the 3rd of this month I have continued my
excavations with the greatest zeal, and although interrupted
sometimes by the rain, and sometimes by Greek festivals,
and also in spite of the continually increasing difficulty in
removing the rubbish, I have now reached an average depth
of 10 meters or about 33 English feet.* Much that was in-
explicable to me has now become clear, and I must first of
all correct an error made in my last report, that I had come
upon the stone period. I was deceived by the enormous
mass of stone implements of all kinds which were daily dug
UP, and by the absence of any trace of metal, except two
C0pper nails, which I believed to have come in some way
from one of the upper strata into the deeper stratum of the
stone period. But since the 6th of this month there have

J his depth of 10 meters, or 33 feet, is that which Dr. Schliemann

came to regard as the lower limit of the ruins of the true heroic Troy.

he depth of 7 meters, or 23 feet, presently mentioned is the upper limit

0 the same stratum. (See the Introduction and the later Memoirs.)—