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they had so completely destroyed them with their picks that an examination of 
their position and of other conditions was impossible. That these were burials 
seemed probable because beads were found with them and a feeding-cup was found 
near the remains of a child’s skull; we are in all probability justified in considering 
these as having belonged to the burials (see plate 9, fig. 1). The feeding-cup is 
of the same red monochrome ware already found in the terrace. It was proper, 
therefore, to assume that the burials belonged to the same people whose culture 
remains have already been discovered in the highest layers of the hills. This 
assumption was soon to be further confirmed. 
When the terrace was lowered for the examination of pots a and b, a skeleton 
(4) was exposed on the west side of the terrace, at about the same level as the 
three stones mentioned above—that is, +30feet. It was exposed by Mr. Warner 
and proved to be the skeleton of a child lying in the regular contracted position 
(Hocker position)* on the right side. The burial gifts—beads of lapis lazuli— 
agree with the beads found in 
terrace 1a (cf. the systematic 
presentation below). When 
the skeleton, stones, and pots 
had been removed, there were 
exposed in the north end of 
the terrace, at +29 feet, two 
more pots, c and d, in position; 
near these, in the northwest 
corner of the terrace, the half 
of a mealing-stone; and finally, 
between this and the pots, but 
a little deeper, at + 28 feet, 
another skeleton of a child (/, 
No. 2). The position of this 
skeleton is shown in fig. 27 by 
a small board (cj. the vertical 
section). Of the two newly-found pots, only one (the western one, c) resembles 
the bake-ovens already described. Here again only the upper part of a pot was 
found, the diameter being 12.4 inches. Its contents are earth mixed with char- 
coal and a white ash-like substance, and the earth below it is burnt red; while, on 
the other hand, the earth surrounding the pot above is scarcely reddened. The 
eastern pot, d, stands full formed in the earth and is much blackened on the 
outside. The contents differ from those of the bake-ovens. They also consist, 
indeed, of much charcoal and earth, but this is so loose that one must assume it 
to have fallen in from above, while the earth in the bake-ovens is smeared on 
the walls and burnt hard. We may, therefore, consider pot d to have served 

Fig. 26.—Pithoi a, b, Pivotal Door-stones and Grindstones, Terrace I. 
*The skeletons are shown in the horizontal plan by skull and cross-bones. In the vertical sections 
they are indicated also by skull and bones in a different arrangement. In both cases, the corresponding 
skeleton is tangent to the bottom of these symbols. 
