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rauthwerl comer to pmvide a level b= fcrthe wall rills. The foundation may have
bhifred during the collapse of the walls, multing m Ihc dirplaccmnr of the stones. This
may explain the discovery of ojumble of ruuetunl-type aonsr in that ma.
The besl preserved ponion of he foundation turned our to be the northeast mmer of the
,trucsre. where the fire box war discovered. Them, it measured between M.M)cm wide.
Thts width suggests that the foundation was wide enough to ruppon a sill measuring up
10 30 em or one fmr thick. Using both the northest comer and the large aone rlah in the
south wall (mentioned above) as .an average. it wwld appear that the foundation could
have measured rpproi!malely 50em wide.
The only surviving evidence of n bonding agent in the h ow foundation was preserved in
the back wall of the fire box. Them. VMS of the same lmal wndyclay used for the floor
wm discovmd among* stones. It may be pmsible that the Lundation was low
enough to have supported itwlf w!thour the nrrd far a bonding material. No vace of lime
monv was found anywhere an the rite.
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The only sizable wning in Ihc foundaIion was locared in the west wall. near the
lourhwca comer of lhe hours (Figure 22a and 22bl. There. two postmolds were
d~scovcred uppmximalely 1.1 m north of the rwhweot mmer The routhem posrmold