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… corresponding to the original floor could not be established. The raw and steeply sloping rock presupposes of course another floor. If this consisted of trodden earth or similar, it ought to be traceable in the fill just as well as if it had been of wood and had rotted away. No traces of fire from a burnt floor are found. Also the raw surface of the gypsum bases presupposes, provided they are contemporary with and belong to the entrance construction, that they partly were not visible and then possibly were sunk below the original floor. (The excavation has now reached the point where both gypsum bases have been cleared.) The find from 1 is considerably larger than from 2. Around a core of large cobblestones resting directly on the rock is a thick layer of hard white gypsum smeared on. The gypsum forms approximately a semicircle in plan, in the shape of a truncated cone. The gypsum cladding does not extend all the way down … continues
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