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before entering the house. A similar arrangement, of 

 more elaborate construction, is found at the entrances to 

 three of the palaces at Anuradhapura, but in those cases 

 the lavatory is built with a raised edging of stone, capable 

 of holding up about six inches of water. 



Close to the north side of the enclosure there are two 

 small excavated pools, probably first dug as clay-pits, and 

 afterwards utilized for bathing purposes when they contained 

 water. A doorway through the outer wall appears to have 

 led to one of these, the path passing through a detached 

 porch, on each side of which was a room ten feet square. 

 These may have been either guard-rooms or the royal 

 dressing-rooms, most likely the latter. 



The principal entrance to the outer yard may have 

 been on the south side, but I have not been able to trace it. 

 There was an entrance, also, near the middle of the east and 

 west walls ; that at the former wall having a peculiar porch 

 built out from the general line of the wall, and a very small 

 guard-room on the inner side. 



The superstructure of the walls of the palace is, of course, 

 of a later date than the remains previously described in this 

 report. This is amply proved by the sizes of the few bricks 

 found, which are smaller than those of the dagabas, and 

 by the shape of the roofing-tiles, which are entirely different 

 from those met with in our excavations near the sluice, and 

 resemble those used at the more recent buildings at the 

 dagabas — none of which, however, can be assigned to a later 

 date than the 12th or 13th centuries. But in the absence 

 of any other ruin suitable for a palace, it is probable that 

 the general outlines, and the foundations of the walls, and 

 the rough uncut pillars inserted in the walls, date from a 

 period not very much more recent than the time of the 

 first princes of Magama. The palace is at the site where 

 we should naturally expect to find it if it were built at a 

 very early date — that is, on the high ridge overlooking the 

 river, from which water for drinking and cooking purposes 

 could easily be brought before the well was dug, and to- 

 wards which one of the main entrances leads. Again, on 

 referring to the account given in the Mahavarhsa of " the 

 festival held on the day on which the King (Kakawarma) 

 conferred a name on his son" (p. 145), it is quite clear that 



