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being sufficiently long to project for insertion into cor-

responding mortise holes in the rebated vertical edges of 

the corner posts which form the side and end styles (see fig. ).

          The four corner posts, which act as the styles as well as 

the door posts, are made up of several pieces of wood joined 

into one piece. They are mortised to the rest of the under-

structure, and stub tenoned to the chief beam or over door 

frieze and sill. (see fig. ).

          The sill is a separate member mortised to the stub tenons 

of the door posts. (see fig. ).

         The bottom edges of the whole of the under-structure is/<are>

bound with copper, painted a dark greenish-blue.

          The opening of the framework of the doorway is rebated 

to receive the x[?]/<f>olding doors.

          The right and left leaves of the folding doors are con-

structed and hung in alike manner to those of the preceding 

shrines, but their pivots and sockets are of copper. The doors 

were bolted and secured with cord and seal (discovered intact) 

in precisely the same way as the second shrine. However, the 

clay seal in this case was on the left door instead of on the 

right (see fig. ), The two seal impressions, although very 

imperfect imprints, could be identified as from the same 

matrixes employed for sealing the second shrine. For their 

description see second shrine, p. ...