Vouni IAlfred Westholm

The outer faces of the house are now all round excavated to a depth of c. 1 m and the walls' width have been examined at repeated points. In the north-east trench wall of the trial trench traces of the destruction of the house are visible in the form of slanting collapse layers that have fallen directly on the cement floor, thus before the present fill and the plough soil came. (see section drawing). The house walls, whose designation is shown in the sketch, are all with the exception of c of roughly the same type and appearance. Large ashlar blocks with, among them, inserted cobblestones are firmly built with gypsum mortar and on the inner and outer faces coated with partly removed fallen plaster. At b) a deep excavation is made on the outer side roughly opposite a). The massive wall continues downwards more than 2 m without the base being found. At various levels genuine burnt layers c 1 dm thick are observed consisting entirely of charcoal. Against the wall are found also fragments of large pithoi and … continues