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IX… g. The section is here divided into two parts by a remaining earth pillar, which supports the house's northern boundary wall (see the plan). As the bricks of the wall here have collapsed to half its breadth, the hidden part of the section becomes rather short - c. 0.30 m. In its upper part, where we are still "indoors", the two floor strata run quite in agreement with the profiles described above. E·C·I b - the floor runs in under the bricks, where a formal reconstruction consequently becomes necessary. The ground surface on the outside of the wall falls steeply, and since the wall is laid in one course only, it rests on the crest of the "Schutt" layer without any depressions, så it is most natural that the outer stones of the wall, as said, have collapsed down. The lower floor layer (layer IV) must end somewhere inside the hidden part of the section, as it is traced strongly thinned on the southern side of the earth pillar but is missing on its northern 30 cm … continues
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