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[[underline]] Chapter VIII.  [[/underline]]  159.

tinct keying, were quite within the powers of the Chinese builder at least as far back as the beginning of the Christian Era.
  During our third day's work at the Wang Fên Wa we laid bare the missing stones or "sills" that had supported the double doors already described.  [[strikethrough]] (see pages 153 and 155 [[underlined]] sq. [[/underlined]] ^[[),]] and fig. 23). [[/strikethrough]] These were three rectangular slabs once flush with the former brick floor of the tomb (see [[strikethrough]] pl. LXXXII [[/strikethrough]] ^[[fig. 36).]]  The largest, in the middle, was almost exactly 3 feet long, and contained a pair of sockets; while the two other slabs, on either side of the first, had one socket each.  All four sockets were very shallow, to allow of clearance for the bottoms of the door-leaves, and were connected with the outer edges of their respective slabs by still shallower grooves, to facilitate the leaves being worked into position.  The slab farthest to the east had shifted backward ([[underline]] i.e. [[/underline]], to the north) about 10 inches, undoubtedly as the result of some earth-movement.  There was other evidence also that at some time or other the whole eastern end of the tomb had moved backward for about the same distance.  The thrust seemed to have been entirely horizontal, not vertical.
  Between the outer edges of the two sockets to the west (apparently still in their original positions), the distance was 4 feet, 3 inches, thus giving us the width of the western doorway.  That of the one to the east had pretty surely been the same before the earth-movement.

[[underline]] Objects found in the Tomb. [[/underline]]
  Those of our workmen who had taken part in the looting of the tomb during the previous autumn said that they had noticed no bones or any trace of a coffin, though they had seen something that resembled remains of cloth.  They stated further that within both doors, on either side had stood a bronze lamp on a high foot---four of them in all.  From the descriptions given us, these seem to have been of a well known Han type,