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Notes on Architecture - Northern Syria

October 24, 1899

Hârim.

Castle, on a conical hill, largely artificial,
[space] ft. high ascending at an angle of about
45 °. The castle as it stands is chiefly
of Saracenic and Mediaeval
workmanship in which a large amount of older
worked stone has been used.

The material shows its antiquity first
in the cutting, much of it is carefully
squared on all sides or is squared with
tooled edges and appears to be Roman,
secondly in the numerous pieces of
classic and Byzantine mouldings and
ornamented blocks* that are found worked
[sic-primarily] into the walls. one column found.

The foundations of the bastion and round
tower at the S.W. angle of the castle are
remarkably well laid in quadratic work
(*see next page)