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… outermost larger roughly dressed stones of dark limestone. In one place, roughly in the middle of the said mulberry tree, one can make out a larger gateway. With a trial examination of the field it is above all a matter of not placing the trench beside what is sought, further so that one quickly comes upon undisturbed layers. Taking these two conditions into account a trench is laid out from a point somewhat below the mulberry tree in the direction of a slight rise in the field roughly to the north-east. In this way nothing of the certainly known quarries is touched. The rise in the field may be due to underlying larger walls and statue accumulations from archaic times. The trench is made to begin with 1,50 m wide and extended according to circumstances in the said direction. – As expected, the upper layers turned out to have come from above, from the rather steeply sloping hill The surface layer contained, besides Roman and indeterminable sherds, also Hellenistic and … continues
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