14 the recent discovery of a middle bronze ii fortification in the city of david, jerusalem During 1961 – 1967, the British archaeologist Kathleen M . Kenyon conducted excavations in various spots in the City of David . Her first excavation area ( A ) was a section on the eastern slope of the hill, above the spring . Kenyon’s goal was to excavate a long narrow section from the wall excavated by Macalister and Duncan on the summit, down to the spring . However, only the two upper thirds of the section were excavated down to c . 25 m above the spring . Kenyon’s most important discovery was two massive parallel walls, 3 m apart, founded on bedrock, which were identified by her as fortifications from various periods . The eastern wall of the two ( Kenyon’s Wall NB ) was the earlier . The wall was 2 m wide, and based on the sherds revealed in its foundation trench, it was dated to the Middle Bronze II . This excavated section was only 12 m long, but it was enough for Kenyon to define it as ...
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