Oura, Trachonas and Idalion

Assuming, after the scree stones were removed, the shape of a wall corner of larger square-hewn blocks. It is called Mur 2. It does not, however, go deeper than 1-2 courses and rests in the earth on a "Schutt" which is evidently Mycenaean. In this there is an older, i.e. Mycenaean, wall of rather frail construction, which diverges from the later wall. It is cut through by a careless pick, but it shows very clearly in both earth sections of the trench. It is called Mur 3. At the 34:^th metre the trench is intersected by a further wall [Mur 4], which is of the same construction as wall 3. It rests on the rock and is very closely bound to it, in that a cutting in the rock and a projection resulting from it form a wall rudiment running at right angles to the wall. Also … continues