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By Neal Spencer

This is often the 1st monograph at the British Museum fieldwork at Kom Firin in Egypt's Nile Delta, a cost created round the time of Ramses II, and occupied until eventually past due Antiquity. This quantity specializes in the survey and distant sensing of the positioning, in addition to an entire e-book of the Ramesside temple.

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5m stretch of the wall’s original southern face is visible, preserved to over 3m high, built mostly from yellow/ white- coloured bricks. 5– 11cm. An external projecting feature may be part of a bastion or a later thickening. 9), suggesting a return wall was visible then. This is no longer the case, and the walls also turns northwards at its eastern end, before abutting the tower which collapsed between the seasons of work by the Naukratis Project. 82, 253). 3m thick mudbrick wall was later thickened on its exterior side (0622), the addition happening after a build-up of deposits outside the wall.

Initial removal of a very thick clay soil deposit (0551) yielded dozens of fragments of red granite. 90). Two bricks placed endto-end (0557) were revealed within a layer of densely compacted clay (0041), but it was not clear if these were in situ. 90). One side of this ran north-south, but its western edge was not parallel. In the south-east corner of the trench, three bricks, sand-yellow in colour, were revealed (0044), also aligned north-south. Finds from this area were limited to the granite fragments, though some animal bone was also retrieved (0041, 0551, 0552).

Further north, as the ground levels out, there were no concentrations of high readings in the magnetometry data to suggest the industrial area extended further in this direction. 74) which could be interpreted as medium-sized buildings with smaller elements, or even a series of grouped smaller buildings. These are on a similar but not identical orientation; the layout is more organic than planned. South-east of the cluster of kilns, the magnetometry data reveals features which one might interpret as small structures, some of which may be aligned to the Ramesside enclosure (the north-west corner of which lies only 60m from the kilns).

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