Vouni IAlfred Westholm

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… �□ par decimeter thick plough soil. As the trial trench is only c 1 m broad, no overview can be gained. Everywhere, however, an unmistakable rectangularity is established. In one of the rooms lies a c 0,30 m thick fire layer Otherwise, in the deepest places, there is found a reddish-brown building-collapse earth, the same as in trial trench 1. — Roughly at the middle of trial trench 8 a somewhat larger cement floor c 3,50 m broad is cut. This floor is bounded by a 0,80 m broad wall, below which the levels become deeper. At a depth of 1,10 a levelled and plastered rock is exposed. Next to the wall at this spot, lying directly on the floor, is a c decimetre-thick fire layer which then can be followed along the length of the trench c m where the walls do not intervene The fire layer rises so that its last and highest point lies m below the ground surface. The earth above the fire layer has the previously described character, while the fire layer rests on red sterile subsoil. If … continues