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West wall of the basilica 1, (Plan section 167 ms. 24.26) This wall is very much like the east wall. The east wall of the fourth section (see above) The east face of East [cleared] down to bedrock from 10.10m to 13.10 m north of the south face of the fourth wall ([Film 676] The west face has not been cleared to bedrock from 0.54m to 6.50m north, and from 15.30 m to the north wall. [written in bracket: At 0.60m north the bedrock is at level - 2.79m; at 4.45m it is at level - 2.54m; at 12.00m north it is at level - 2.40m; at 16.00m north it is at level -1.65; but at the north wall it drops to -1.89m]
Diagram fig 7
From the south end to 0.54m north the wall is founded on a stratum of hard compact red undisturbed soil at an average level of - 2.07m. The course whereon it is cleared at A. [illegible] the foundation course which is without any proper face is in rubble composed of stones averaging about double fist size with an occasional larger slab or larger stone. The top of this course
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check plan From 0.80m to 1.50m north it is founded on an earlier wall, for which see plan (fig ) - level? at level -2.23m.
For levels see a referred to A the diagram 2 (fig. ). Diagram 2
| Found | 1st | 2d | 3d | |||||
| 0.60m north / S. end | bedrock / -2.79 | -1.66 | -1.15 | -0.63 | -0.09 | |||
| 1.30 | -1.05 | -0.59 | -0.06 | |||||
| 4.45 | -2.54 | .92 | -1.62 | 0.50 | +0.04 | |||
| 12.00 | -2.40 | 0.99 | -1.41 | -0.86 | -0.38 | +0.05 | ||
| 16.00 | -1.65 | - | + 0.14 | |||||
| N. end | -1.89 | .76 | -1.13 | -0.68 |
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2.54 1.62 .92
1.89 1.13 .76
2.54 1.89 1.13 .76
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