BSY_FB_05_p.62
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The town was built in practically two
styles, the remains of the simple megalithic
being very rare. These are the ordinary
colonnaded style with rectangular columns
moulded caps and architraves and a
simpler style, somewhat later perhaps,
in which houses are more nearly square
in plan, higher, and provided with windows
^ with ^ semicircular tops. (not arches)
Several large houses on the west side of
the town illustrate the first style.
They are very wide, only one room deep, with
the two story colonnade running the full length
of the front. The end walls of the colonnade
are universally separate in construction
from the end walls of the house of which
they are a continuation. ^ These house walls are ^
usually of large squared blocks.
The colonnades are all on the same plan,
a series of rectangular monolithic piers
with caps more or less richly moulded and
architraves sometimes moulded often plain.
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