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Dêhes

upon the portico are a door and window.
Above the portico a loggia is formed in
the same way and above this is the gable.

The ornament of the front is confined to
the caps and architrave mouldings but it
is of simple dignified character (see photo)

Among the houses I noticed two with
brackets (see sketch) not over a door, which
must have supported balconies as the upper
story. A ruined house at the S.E. of
the town has a finely built wall in which
the large squared blocks of stone have tooled
edges. The first instance I have noticed here
of that particular form of stone dressing.

Villa. At the south of the town is the ruin of
a large villa of oblong form showing only
plain walls of large blocks of cut stone on
the exterior broken only by a door in the
middle of the long side and a few small
windows in the upper story. Within,
this structure was divided into three sections