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… and this clay had also followed into the collapse of the upper parts of the wall. The earth between the stones differed in no way from that in the wall, and the stones lay in the collapse roughly as densely as in the actual wall. In addition came purely practical difficulties: since the wall was naturally best preserved in its lowest parts, one had to work at the same time on the wall in its entirety down to c 4 m. depth. Many times the undertaking seemed fruitless when the wall face showed large irregularities and settlings as well as collapses, but finally proof was obtained that the course taken was the right one: the cleared face line was found to lie precisely flush with the vertically hewn edge of the solid rock, on which the wall rested. This … continues
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