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flat stones from arch to arch making a
platform upon which the house was built.

In cases where a house was built upon a slope
it was possible to have an entrance on the
lower level with the cellar, a small house on the
west of the village had two such entrances with
ornamented doorways, another, in the south east
had doubtless, at least, one such entrance and
is divided in the interior into a large chamber
with two rows, of three arches each, supporting the
stone ceiling, and several smaller chambers
connecting (see top of p.p.). Where houses were built
upon the level, the cellar could be reached
only by a ladder, one of these, on the south,
was used as a cistern and another near
the village in an orchard to the S.S.E is simply
a great arched basement, finely finished in
the interior and provided with rings in the under
side of the crown of its arches. This was without
light or approach except through the ceiling
(see plan on opposite page.)