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sides. We shall therefore begin with describing the Main Building and then successively the various parts added to this central feature. [handwritten: it]
The Main Building (Pl.II-IV, X.1, XI.1). This is composed of a large, elongated unit with side wings on the east and west. The internal size of the central unit is 16 m. in length and 4.50 in width on an average; the latter dimension is not too large to be spanned by the main roof beams. Its long axis is directed almost north-south and it is divided at two points by massive masonry pillars which stand on the central long axis but perpendicular to it, as though to carry transverse walls at a higher level. The southernmost of these pillars is rectangular (1.07 m. in width and 0.66 m. in thickness) and stands to a total height of 1.54 m. above the lowest floor uncovered. It is composed of an upper part of dressed stone blocks which rest on a lower course of blocks, also dressed, forming a kind of stylobate, slightly longer and broader thus showing a narrow margin or footing all round. The whole rests on a foundation of boulders which probably rests on the bedrock. This pillar stands in / line
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