40 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS [VOL. 50 



of the top of the shaft and that of the level at the base of the build- 

 ing, I found the measurements to be very much the same, and from 

 this I am led to suppose my shaft is not yet down to bed-rock. 



Unless with a lot of extra work, it is hardly possible to go deeper, 

 as the rubble keeps continually falling and making work danger- 

 ous. As the building, excepting on the northwest side, is so much 

 destroyed, owing to the roots of the large trees going through 

 the walls, and as it can only be a matter of a very few years before 

 the whole structure tumbles to pieces, I have decided to cut a 

 section through the building from the northeast side and come 

 through onto the shaft. This will leave three sides of the structure 

 as they were. On removing the cap on the " curl " I found rubble 

 underneath, and the question arises as to why this cap was placed 

 there. At present I can only conclude it was for ornamentation. 

 During this day's work, no articles, not even potsherds, were found. 



October 16. — Commenced cutting a section from the northeast side, 

 towards the center of the structure. On working away the stones 

 which had fallen from the second tier, and once within the circle of 

 the second tier, found that though the outer walls had at least some 

 attention paid to the building of them, yet the inside was composed 

 of rubble thrown in and earth to fill up the crevices. About 2 m. 

 inside the second tier came upon two monoliths firmly embedded 

 in the ground, and each slanting to the northeast at an angle of 

 about 45 degrees ; they were one meter apart. At this point sherds 

 of very common household pottery were also found, and at the same 

 level and almost in the same place a piece of green glass was found. 

 This glass much resembles the green glass found at Dhlo-Dhlo last 

 year, only this piece is very much thicker and looks as if it had at 

 onetime formed a portion of* a bowl. This glass is about 5 cm. 

 in size either way. Almost in the same place and at the same level 

 was found a thin piece of glass about 1 1 by 6 cm., which has a thin 

 coating of what is apparently silver on both sides, but from the 

 different hues I take the glass to be colored. One piece of decorated 

 pottery only was found, and that had the cord pattern on it. Large 

 bones and teeth of animals were found in fairly large quantities at 

 all levels. Two " f uba " game stones and one grain-crushing stone 

 were also found^among the rubble. 



October zy. — Continued the section through to the center, work- 

 ing away the top portion right into the ' ' curl. ' ' Removed the large 

 stone on top of same, and worked downwards, with interesting re- 

 sults. At about one meter down came upon fragments of a very 

 fine earthernware or porcelain bowl. From the fragments by me — 



