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building (rooms VI and III). In weighing-up the ceramic evidence from these rooms it is necessary to bear in mind its limitations, for the excavation of these rooms has not everywhere been carried down to the rock. However care has been taken to complete the evidence from these rooms by trial soundings below the earliest floor of the building at vital points and it seems unlikely that further excavations will necessitate much revision of the picture so far obtained. Nevertheless, this is only a provisional report and the results here set out should be treated with the necessary reserve.
Room XIV (pl.XXV-XXIX).
This room is the northern part of the large central unit of the Main Building. Its earliest floor (V) rests on the bedrock but its central part seems to overlie a large cavity, possibly a tomb-chamber, which before the erection of the building was filled with well-packed boulders over which the floor was laid. In the centre of the floor, which is of lime marl, is a raised square platform (L.1.20 m.), the surface
Handwritten: Voir légende / XXV / corrigé
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain