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… section of the Main Building. It is built in the same manner as the preceding wall except that the top part was formed of twin slabs placed back to back leaving a space (0.13 m.) between. These however are replaced by a single block at the south end of the wall which shows a rabbet for the wooden doorjamb. The opposite doorjamb is formed by a piece of wall (3a) abutting on wall 3 with a corresponding rabbet in the upper dressed block. The threshold is 0.60 m. above the level of floor VI in room III but approximately level with floor V (infra p. ). The rabbetted angles of the stone blocks shows at the level of the threshold cuttings to receive a piece of wood of rectangular section (0.18 m. in thickness) actually resting on the stone threshold. This appears to have completed the lower part of the wooden doorway frame, its upright parts being inserted in the rabbetted angles.
The wall (8) between rooms VIII and II abuts on wall 7 and is built similarly with the difference that the topmost stone part is of a single dressed block (l. 1.28 m., ht. 0.71 m., th. 0.54 m.), which shows / on … continues
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