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Trough to feed horses
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This unusually long slender piece of rock is lying just outside the King’s Audience Hall. Your - by now ruins fatigued - eyes could easily miss this casual looking rock object in its gray-brown surroundings. Look close, and you would realize that this is in fact a trough scooped out of an unusually long block of rock. The aristocrats while attending the King’s court left their horses here to drink water from this trough! The trough could hold well above 2000 liters of water and about two dozen horses could drink from it at a time. A close look at the end of the trough reveals a tiny drain hole too.
You would spot the trough placed parallel to the mud track at the bend just north of the King’s Audience hall. This 40 feet or so long stable-ware and the row of horse stables north of it offered the archeologists some additional clues about the king’s court. For example, it made them conclude that nobles from far places used to attend the King’s court regularly.
