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Title: Troja : results of the latest researches and discoveries on the site of Homer's Troy, and in the heroic Tumuli and other sites made in the year 1882, and a narrative of a journey in the Troad in 1881
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Schliemann, Heinrich, 1822-1890
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Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of height between the hill of Hissarlik and theadjoining ridge, the level top had increased very considerablyin those directions. For this reason we see how the housesof the new settlers extend over the old fortification-wallsand far beyond them. The house-walls are built partly ofquarry-stones joined with clay, partly of clay-bricks: ofsuch clay-brick walls of the fifth settlement, many may beseen in the great north-eastern trench below the Romanpropyhrum (see L on Plan VII.) above the southern gate(see NF on Plan ^ II.), and in the great block of debris(G on Plan VII.) to the south of the temple A. Theyconsist of bricks 0*30 m.-o* 33 m. broad and long, by0,065 mm.-o,0 75 mm. in height, their thickness notexceeding: the length of a brick. The material of thebricks is, as in the preceding cities, a dark clay ; the cementis a light-coloured clay, almost white. These brick wallsare for the most part unbaked ; only in rare cases arebaked bricks seen. All the brick walls have foundations
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190 FIFTH IREHISTOKIC SFTTLEMEXT. (Chap. IV. of quarry-Stones, which probably projected partly abovethe floors, to prevent tlie disintegration to which the lowerparts of the walls were most exposed. As no traces oftiles have been found, all the houses in this settlement alsomust have had horizontal roofs of wood, reeds, and clay. The fifth settlers cannot have used the old fortificationwalls, for the accumulation of debris had been so great thatthose walls were completely buried. Although my archi-tects have not succeeded in finding a fortification-wallwhich could with certainty be attributed to the fifth settle-ment, yet we have brought to light in two places a citadel-wall of large rudely-wrought calcareous blocks, which wecan, at least with the highest probability, indicate as thewall of the fifth city. This wall is now visible, first, inthe great north-west trench (11 z on Plan VII, in this workand Z-O on Plan I. in Ilios); and, again, at the north-eastern end of the great north-e

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