somewhat in the course of ages; but, although they have lost their owl-heads and wings, yet their types may easily be recognized in the vases with two female breasts with which the potters' shops in the Dardanelles abound.
There also occurred in this stratum hundreds of ornamented and unornamented terra-cotta whorls, and many brooches of bronze, some knives of the same metal, many needles and awls of bone, innumerable rude stone hammers as well as saddle-querns, and a large number of well-polished axes of diorite, like those represented in Ilios under Nos. 1279–1281, p. 569.
§ III.—The Fifth Prehistoric Settlement on the Site of Troy.
The fifth settlers extended their city further to the south and east than the two preceding settlements; for, owing to the great accumulation of débris, and the insignificant difference of height between the hill of Hissarlik and the adjoining ridge, the level top had increased very considerably in those directions. For this reason we see how the houses of the new settlers extend over the old fortification-walls and far beyond them. The house-walls are built partly of quarry-stones joined with clay, partly of clay-bricks: of such clay-brick walls of the fifth settlement, many may be seen in the great north-eastern trench below the Roman propylæum (see L on Plan VII.) above the southern gate (see NF on Plan VII.), and in the great block of débris (G on Plan VII.) to the south of the temple A. They consist of bricks 0.30 m.–0.33 m. broad and long, by 0,065 mm.–0,075 mm. in height, their thickness not exceeding the length of a brick. The material of the bricks is, as in the preceding cities, a dark clay; the cement is a light-coloured clay, almost white. These brick walls are for the most part unbaked; only in rare cases are baked bricks seen. All the brick walls have foundation
