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… ler decreases. The layer, however, throughout its whole extent is well delimited from the surrounding earth. Characteristic of this stratum are the narrow depressions which extend from its base and form narrow pockets of light earth in the underlying dark layer. They are marks of wooden posts which carried the house's roof construction and are six in number. The four uppermost lie roughly evenly distributed along the line where the floor is horizontal at a distance from each other of 0.60 - 0.80 metres. Where the floor slopes most steeply they are absent however and reappear then on the last metre of the floor surface, which there again runs horizontally. These two last postholesx) lie at a mutual distance of c. 0.70 m. The first and the last in the row are both deeper and broader than the others. Here stronger constructions have been required than in the middle of the house. The reason will later be discussed in connection with the house and roof
x) The southern one of them is seen in elevation
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