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Room 3 had an earth floor; at the NE end there were remains of an altar, much destroyed, and the "table" had disappeared altogether, but at 2.50 m. above floor level there was here the base of a much later "table" showing that at a much later date the room continued to be used for its original purpose as a chapel. In the north corner where the "table" should have been there was under the floor an infant's burial in a double bowl and in front of it two more bowl-burials with infants' bones, and all over the room there were larnax burials. Of the walls, the NW wall had twenty-four courses of burnt brick for most of its length, but near the west corner there was a straight joint and up to the corner the wall was of mud brick with only eight courses of burnt brick; the west jamb of the door to Room 2 was presumably of mud brick but had disappeared. The burnt brickwork of the wall had been breached from below by treasure-seekers; the mud brick above was unbroken.2
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