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0209 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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[Photo] 184 古代の見張り塔T. VI. B.の平面図.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

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were curious carved handles

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   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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