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A doorway (late) at the end of Straight Street led into a narrow unpaved passage between the walls of Nos. 3 and 7 into a rectangular paved enclosure which seems to have been kept as an open space during the main occupation-period of the quarter. Older walls were found below its floor level which divided the area into four compartments, in one of which was a corbel-vaulted tomb, but these walls were not necessarily contemporary with each other and did not appear to have any connection with the walls bounding the space; if the tops of them served as the foundations for light walls of sheds - as is possible - there is nothing to prove this, and the plan as given must be taken to have no real meaning. The existence of an open court in the middle of the houses, attached to one of them and used for some such purpose as stalling animals, is not surprising.2
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