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"The cost of excavating, which Duncan Mackenzie had predicted “would involve an enormous outlay of funds,” was considerably diminished by the decision of several residents of Dhiban to make use of stones from the medieval Arabic level to construct new houses, moving the stones by truck and camel at their own expense after the surveyor and photographer had completed their work on Stratum I."
William L. Reed, The Excavations at Dibon in Moab
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