TCD MS 10515 folio 105 verso
general features of the ruins, ascend the crumbling tower. The first object to claim attention was the remains of an irrigation canal skirting the elongated mound (which, no doubt, once carried water to the tower, but was now choked with wind – blown sand).* Crossing the canal, we soon reached the ruins of the city. The mound was low and elongated, it appeared about a mile in length and from one extremity rose the large, square tower standing high above the ruins. Quantities of broken pottery with fragments of fire-baked brick lay scattered profusely on the mound; a massive water trough had fallen on one side; decaying walls projected above the sand. But the tower was the centre of attraction; it was built of square flat slabs,
* Probably more recent