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be similar to the well in the north facade of the building (infra p. ). Almost half way between this point and the north end of the wall, a dressed block of wall 25, which is the north wall of room XXVII, overlaps the surviving stone course of our wall. This means that when the upper blocks of the wall stood they abutted on either side of this overlapping block and thus effected a good bond between walls 20 and 25, which must thus have been constructed simultaneously. Immediately north of the overlapping block we notice a circular cavity 0.45 m. across cut in the masonry. This cavity may have held a vertical wooden post for binding the pisé superstructure to the stone courses (1). If so, this cavity was cut after the conflagration and the removal of the upper dressed blocks, when the wall was rebuilt of mudbricks resting on the masonry now existing.
The opposite west wall of the central room (15) /has
(1) This technique is seen in the west wall of room XIII where the mudbricks are preserved ·(xxxxxxxxxxxx Fig.2)[illegible]. A similar method is observed in the masonry of the corridors of the Granary west of the Lion Gate at Mycenae; cf. BSA, XXV, 42.
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