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… system were observed in conjunction with the contemporary alterations to the west room (XXX-XXXI) of the North Building (infra p. ).
In order to explain the change in street level it is necessary to collate the observations made in our building with those made elsewhere in the town and consider whether it was an operation affecting the town generally or only isolated areas. Meanwhile we can tentatively attribute the sudden raising of the street level to the accumulation of debris thrown out of the building at the time of the clearance following the conflagration, for the material with which the street level was raised consists of successive layers containing ashes or decomposed plaS (Fig. 1).
The inner row of rooms (VI A, VII, VIII) does not repeat the scheme of the front row. Room VIII, the westernmost of the three, is almost square; room VII is narrower and VI A is both narrower and longer. It would seem that rooms VI and VI A were conceived as one single unit and then divided by a partition wall on the stone foundation which survives, which however was
Figure: handwritten marginal annotation near the centre-right margin, illegible; labels: none
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain