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| Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2 |
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| GROUND-PLAN OF ANCIENT WATCH-STATION T. VI. B. |
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CH. LXII PLAN OF RUINED QUARTERS 145
wooden posts of the narrow entrance arranged to take heavy bolts, plainly indicated that the need of defence had been present to those who
first built the small post. Â
184. GROUND-PLAN OF ANCIENT
The remains of furniture WATCH-STATION T.VI.B. ,
and equipment left behind
by the last occupants as of Ft&I o~•/.ß,
ß, ~yp~TL 4. I® G~iv~r~ ~ ;eno value showed the same Sin-0,/~~ Io
uniform simplicity befitting e®® ~~~'n~~ 1.
4u Tower of ®le"
a remote frontier. There 1s~® t le"'
solid brit 1 j
were curious carved handles
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or hooks of wood, intended, f ®I~~v. ivyQ~
grebtaperhaps, as emblems or for nei ':
mmme~
supporting stands of arms ; Er°
pieces of hard wood with
leather-lined grooves, which 911
seem to have belonged to Ar.
cross-bows or small cata-
puits ; wooden tent - pegs with rough design of a human head on the top ; pieces of painted and lacquered bowls in wood ; much-mended rags of silk garments, and, more plenti
ful still, rope-soled shoes of coarse make (Figs. 173, 174). Among the dozen or so of wooden records which had found a safe refuge in a layer of refuse on the floor of an outer room, there was one dated in the year 68 B.C. But after all preceding experiences it scarcely needed this documentary evidence to convince me that, in a soil which had seen extremely scanty rainfall for the last two thousand years, and was far removed from any chance of interference by human agency, nothing but wind erosion could prove destructive even to the most perishable remains.
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