The ruined cities of Mashonaland : being a record of excavation and exploration in 1891, with a chapter on the orientation and mensuration of the temple by R. M. W. Swan (1893)
Bent, J. Theodore (James Theodore), 1852-1897, Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · London, New York : Longmans, Green and co. · leaf 141
DESCRIPTION OE THE VARIOUS RUINS 109 flooring and steps in buildings constructed without mortar is interesting, showing that dry building was used not from necessity but from choice. The entrance to the north-west had been walled up, and we had to climb over a heap of stones to gain admittance… … PATTERN ON LARGE CIRCULAR RUIN AT ZIMBABWE between these two, presumably merely a sally-port in the wall, the lintel of which had consisted of wooden beams, which had been burnt, and on their giving way the wall above had also fallen down. Of the outer wall of the circular building the most…
Swan, Robert McNair Wilson, 1858-1904 · Extinct cities
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