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only a small proportion of this area would have been inhabitable, since large areas of this space are covered with bare rock. Only a band of rubble marks the wall in the east, although the west and south-west wall is in places 0.5 metres (20 in) high. There are traces of an outer wall which would have guarded the easiest approach to the fort. This wall lines a part of the lower terrace on the north-west.
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