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… part small trial pits without clarity on the nature of the building can be obtained. The large ashlar block turns out to rest only at its outer edge on the rock and in fact constitutes a part left standing in this, when the rest of the house was cut out.
7/6Now the excavations return to the palace. It is necessary to explore its extent. To the far end a new system of trial trenches is planned, mainly up on the Upper Terrace. The first of these will be trial trench 8. It stretches from the vicinity of the kitchen wing to one a point in trial trench 1 where the corner of the cement floor can be expected to lie. Nearest the tents the trench cuts a system of apparently very small rooms, whose walls seem to be parallel to the palace walls previously encountered. At the beginning of the trench the uneven rock is exposed, which perhaps where forms the boundary in this direction. Between the walls lie more or less well-preserved floors of cement. Above all this lies only a … continues
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