É. Apor (ed.): Stein, Aurel: Old Routes of Western Iran. (Budapest Oriental Reprints, Ser. B 2.)
Chapter II. —In Kohgalu Tracts
Sec. i] BASHT TO KHAIRÄBÄD RIVER 63 Such a resemblance was equally noticeable in a ruined rectangular post, ///, some 90 yards to the west (see Plan 6). Its walls, 3 feet 9 inches thick and built with rough stones set in mortar, measure 86 feet by 66 feet outside, the corners being approximately orientated. The shorter north-east side appears to have-been adjoined by a row of six barrack-like apartments, each about feet wide and 32 feet long. The one near the northern corner still retained its barrel-vaulting, while the one at the eastern ' corner showed a division into two rooms. A depression inside the south-east face seemed to mark the position of a well, while that of a gate was indicated by a break of the wall on the south-west face. That the enclosure was meant for a defensible post with quarters for soldiers is proved by a fosse 12 feet wide traceable at 10 feet distance from the foot of the enclosing wall. A large ruined complex of much decayed structures composed apparently of a residence with out-houses was to be seen at a short distance to the north-east of this post, but this could not be surveyed in detail before the approach of darkness obliged us to leave this interesting site for our distant camp at Saräb-nänis. It only remains to be noted that whatever pottery remains could be found among the ruins consisted of plain red ware and a few green-glazed fragments. Our journey, resumed on December nth, was to take us back to the line of the old road we had left. This leads along the main valley farther north, and would bring us to the small oasis of Dö-gumbadhän. But after marching 4 miles and passing through low broken hills we were still some distance from the line of the road when, near a patch of cultivation known as Chahär-deh, we came unexpectedly
