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would have been composed of the torrent fill of small stones into which our N wall was cut. It is possible it fell shortly after the NW child was laid in our tomb. Though the quantity of stones was not very great, and the fall may have been only partial.
Perhaps because of crowding from this upper tomb, thinness of walls on that side, the oblique SE entrance was cut. It seems to cut in too neatly to have that cut into this tomb accidentally. Before the 2nd (from botton) level of bones were laid in place, the earlier ones were covered to apparently deliberately, not by drift, with earth mixed with charcoals (cf pp 39-40), a layer .56 to .12 thick, skulls of this level presumably crushed so as not to emerge. On the surface of this layer we found bones pushed against back and N walls, and an ordered human skeleton laid obliquely, over the trunk of which lay the skeleton of a small animal. Belonging in the same level as the oblique
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skeleton, torrent bed beside it one laid more or less along center line of tomb, in rather less good order than th e oblique one. Bones of this level seem to have been covered by a natural deposit : small stones in the part of the tomb overhung by the torrent bed.
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