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… of the centre has a staircase of four steps. It is difficult, in the present state of the clearance, to interpret the significance of this staircase, but it is possible that it led to an upper storey.
The height of the ashlar walls of this partof the building reaches 1.50 m. [handwritten: about] [handwritten: [illegible]] and almost everywhere we have cleared the lower part of the superstructure of the walls, which were of pisé covered with a coat of colourwhitish. Everywhere the ashlar blocks are very carefully worked, which indicates that the part south of the building had special importance.
The north part of the building was built in a different manner. The footing of the ashlar walls is much lower; it is currently re- [handwritten: covered] by a thick layer of debris (mostly of decomposed pisé) coming from the superstructure, which indicates that at a period that we cannot yet determine but probably in the XIII century it was demolished. The findsmade in the upper part of the demolition layer, however, indicate that life continued after the destruction of this part of the building.
What was this building which by its dimensions and the … continues
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