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DISCOVERY OF A SECOND GATE.
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bricks or of small calcareous stones joined with clay. In a house-wall of the fifth city were some courses of crude bricks between the courses of stone-masonry. As a strange phenomenon I may mention that, in this excavation, we picked up in several places corn-bruisers and rude hammers of stone immediately below the stratum of the Acolic Ilium. As in the case of their presence in the Hellenic well, they were, no doubt, thrown here together with other débris.

The Greek and Latin inscriptions, of which many were found here and elsewhere, are given in the subsequent pages.

Another of our great labours was to cut away nearly the whole of the great block of débris marked B on Plan I. in Ilios, and to remove in the excavated parts all the walls and the remaining débris of the third settlement, so as to bring to light all the foundations of the second city, and what else remained of its house-walls. I only left in situ the largest house of the third city (marked HS on Plan I. in Ilios and on Plan VII. in this work), which I formerly attributed to the town chief. I also excavated the trench (Z'—O on Plan I. in Ilios and N Z on Plan VII.) much deeper, carefully cleared the great western wall, and excavated the whole space A—O (Plan I. in Ilios), so as to bring to light the south-western gate (R C and F M on Plan VII.) with the adjacent part of the great wall down to below their foundations. I further removed the débris which rested on the south-western gate-road,[1] cleared out the débris from between the two great walls of the second city,[2] c and b on Plan VII., and brought to light their prolongation in an easterly direction. In doing so, I was led by certain indications to suspect the existence of a second gateway, leading up from the south side to the Acropolis of the second city, at the points marked G, G' (on Plan I. in Ilios). I therefore excavated there, and

  1. ↑ See in Ilios the engraving No. 144, and T U on Plan VII. in this volume.
  2. ↑ Idem, and Plan VII.
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