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giving access to an irregular triangular space (F). 

 In the north-west angle of this triangle is fixed 

 a trilithon table (c) of the usual type, 32 inches 

 high ; at a like height above the table is fixed 

 another horizontal slab which serves as a roof to 

 the corner. The south corner of the triangle is 

 shut off by a vertical slab, in which is cut a window 

 29 inches by 17. Through this is seen a shrine (?) 

 consisting of a box (d) made of five well-cut slabs 

 of stone, the front being open. The aperture by 

 which F is entered was evidently intended to be 

 closed with a slab of stone from the inside of F, 

 for it was rebated on that side, and there are holes 

 to be used in securing the slab. When the entrance 

 was thus blocked F still communicated with E 

 by means of a small rectangular window 16 inches 

 by 12 in one of the adjacent slabs (visible in 

 PL III). 



Returning to the area E we find in the south- 

 west wall an elaborate doorway (PI. II, Fig. 1, 

 p. 82) leading to a rectangular room H. The 

 doorway consists of two tall pillars with a great 

 lintel laid across the top. The space between 

 the pillars is closed by a fixed vertical slab in 

 which is a window-like aperture similar to that 

 which gives access to Room F. All the stones 

 in this doorway are ornamented with pit-marks. 

 The rectangular room H has niches in its walls 

 to the north, south,, and west. Each niche is 

 formed by a pair of uprights with a block laid 



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