Petra tou Limniti and VouniAlfred Westholm

Room 24.Room 24 is the direct continuation of room 7, without any wall separating the two rooms. Rooms 7 and 24 together form a large enclosed court with dimensions c 32,50 m X 15,80 m. The southwestern parts of the court are not yet fully clearly excavated, and the description of them is therefore left for the time being. In room 24 the earth fill is throughout homogeneous from the black surface layer down to the rather uneven level that is presumed to have been the courtyard plan. For the most part the court this lay directly on the unworked rock In the pits, however, that are found in the rock, there was consistently found red sterile subsoil, which probably has never been disturbed. No pottery was found in these. The rock and thus the level of the courtyard plan rises upward toward the south-western parts, and since the ground surface is broadly horizontal … continues