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edifices. Traces of several large buildings may also be seen on a terrace on the south side. I dug in these four latter places, as well as in twenty others where the formation of the soil held out any hope of finding a deeper accumulation of debris. But everywhere I struck the rock at a depth of from 0.15 m. to 0.30 m. Nevertheless, I found a good deal of pottery, the bulk of which consisted of well-baked, very common wheel-made, unpainted and unvarnished terra-cottas, very similar to those found on the Fulu Dagh. They were intermixed with rude, very slightly baked, wheel-made pottery of white clay, such as I had found in abundance in my excavations in Ithaca; also with slightly baked, coarse, light-yellow, gray, dark-blue, or black pottery, very similar to that of the first epoch at Gergis on the Bali Dagh and at Eski Hissarlik, for which, as well as for the coarse red pottery of Fulu Dagh, we had found the date of from the 9th to the 5th centuries B.C. The Hellenic pottery found on Kurshunlu Tepeh consisted of monochrome glazed red or black terra-cottas, of the Macedonian and Roman times. Of prehistoric or archaic Hellenic pottery no trace was found.

As Mount Kurshunlu Tepeh runs out to an obtuse point, it appears probable that the débris were washed down the slopes by the winter rains, and that this is the cause of the scanty vestiges of human industry on the declivity of the hill. But it is altogether inexplicable to me that the accumulation of débris should be as insignificant in the large hollow on the north-west side, and on the flat terraces, as it is everywhere else. Several travellers mention, on the east and west side of the hill, two circles of stones resembling cromlechs, for which they claim the remotest antiquity. I also saw these stone circles, but at once recognized in them the substructions of shepherds' huts, laid by modern Turkish herdsmen. The surface of the hill is strewn with fragments of very rude pottery, apparently of large jars.