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JAR HANDLES FROM SOUTH-EAST ANGLE.
(By favour of the Palestine Exploration Fund.)
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VASE FOUND AT S.-E. ANGLE.
(By favour of the Palestine Exploration Fund.)
and the courses below that have the appearance of being
ancient work. But we still have to go 78 or 80 feet beneath
the surface to find the foundations of the wall. It appears
that the lowest or foundation course is partially sunk in the
rock at the angle. When the
builders of the Temple came to
work here, they found upon the
rock an accumulation of 8 or 10
feet of fat mould, abounding in
potsherds. This they cut through
in order to lay their foundation
stones on the solid rock. In the
red earth were found fragments of
pottery and fat-lamps, which probably
are of the earliest type of
lamp used in Jerusalem. Resting
on the red earth was a layer of
broken pottery, and in this was
found a rusty nail, some charred
wood, and several jar handles.
Some of these last had well-defined figures impressed on
