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With the Contenson trench finished, we double it from 120 to 129, and as a result we temporarily abandon the spoil trench between 110 and 119. the circular basin pt 608 (page 71) has a hole at the base Otherwise we continue the systematic clearance of the fire residues located between the pegs 104 and 105 Various conclusions may be proposed. 1) the fire was probably earlier and therefore, a probable cause of the destruction of this room (ref. the floor entirely burnt, even in its thickness and the walls calcined from the bottom) 2) this fire would have caused, by burning the joists (numerous traces of wood, these last falling first to the ground) the collapse of the roofing material (probably very fatty clay which gives immediately above the floor and traces of wood, a greyish-white heap similar to all combustions of (river silt) rich clay. 3) the fall of the roofing (penetration into the lateral walls N and S, disappearance of the bracing floor, or another cause) brings onto the materials already fallen, bricks
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