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… gypsum base 2 numerous bronze nails were found however not so plentifully as closer to the wall. All the nails lay directly on the rock. In the vicinity of gypsum base 1 a small knife and an iron nail was also found. att It is hardly likely that these nails are connected with a wooden floor or the like which gradually rotted, whereupon the nails fell down onto the rock. In that case they should have been concentrated at certain points and not, as is the case, scattered fairly evenly over this whole area c 8 m2. More likely is, as previously suggested, that they derive from a board cladding of the cobble wall or from a raised platform of wood of this. Despite the most careful investigations, remains of a floor over the uneven rock cannot be found. It is most remarkable that the entrance, which below the stairs is so well worked, seems to lead up to a room or rather a courtyard, where a horizontal surface … continues
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