EXCAVATIONS AND FINDS AT THE NORTH KURGAN. 87 
THE WORK AND FINDS AT THE SEPARATE LOCALITIES. 
THE EXCAVATIONS AT THE TERRACES. 
Terrace Ia, b (see figs. 23 and 24).—Soon after the débris of Komorof’s trench 
had been removed from the top of the hill, the excavation in the undisturbed 
layers exposed a wall of unburnt bricks (A), which extended across the trench 
with a thickness of about 2.5 feet. The top of this wall lay at +37 feet and 
on its northern side, at the height of 31.5 feet, was a floor marked by two fire- 
reddened places. Each place surrounds the top of an earthenware pot sunk to 
the lip in the floor, the top diameters of the pots being 9 and 8.8 inches, respec- 
tively. The assumption that this floor and its clay vessels were contemporaneous 
with the wall just mentioned proved to be wrong; the wall proved to be younger. 
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Fig. 24.—Vertical Section and Projection of Finds, Terrace I. 
Under it were found older and narrower walls (B), running in a different direction; 
and adjoining it on the north there was exposed a peculiar quadrangle of irreg- 
ular form (2.8 and 2.6 feet), of which one corner was destroyed. ‘The floor of this 
quadrangle was paved with small flat pebbles and the inner walls of its lower 
part were incrusted with fragments of pottery. The quadrangle, with thin walls 
running towards the west, is shown in fig. 25. In following the walls towards 
the west a similar small room was found, also incrusted with small fragments 
of pottery. Further examination of these rooms was not practicable under our 
general scheme of work, on account of the overlying mass of earth. However, 
since the floor of the quadrangle stood at the same level with the fireplaces and 
