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Section bSection b. is perpendicular to wall 6-7, that is parallel to wall 7-2 at a distance of 4,00 m from it. Here the continuation of layers 1-3 from the previous section is studied. Beneath the fairly thick surface layer follows the upper dark gravel layer number 2, which however thins out rapidly and disappears 1,90 m from wall 6-7. The missing part has washed down the slope. The light gravel layer, however, is almost undisturbed and gives here too cause for the same explanation as in section a, namely as fill for the courtyard surface. Beneath this fill-layer follows a thick layer of dark brown sterile bottom earth, which extends right up to wall 7-6. Evidently this sterile layer has never been disturbed. When wall 7-6 was built, this was done from below, from room 6. One dug away only as much of the sterile bottom earth as the wall required. A cut through the layers in this section exactly 1,90 m from wall 6-7 thus has the following measurements:
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