Identifier: surveyofwesternp00warruoft (find matches)
Title: The survey of Western Palestine-Jerusalem
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Warren, Charles, Sir, 1840-1927 Palestine Exploration Fund Conder, C. R. (Claude Reignier), 1848-1910
Subjects: Jerusalem -- Antiquities Jerusalem -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Palestine Exploration Fund
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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posterne de la tanerie, e vadroit par desos le pont ( Descriptiones Terrse Sanctee, by TitusTobler). From this and from other accounts it is apparent that thestreet from the Damascus Gate to tht; Dung Gate passed under WilsonsArch in the Middle Ages. Wilsons Arch has 23 courses of stones of varying dimensions, aswill be .seen by reference to the elevation (Plate XXXIII.); and the 25—2 196 THE SIR\TA- OF WESTERX PALESTINE. voussoirs aro not of 1 qual iliickness, as is the case with the more ancientarches to the west. They are from 7 to 12 feet in length, and have noappearance of any marginal draft on them. There is very little simi-larity between this arch and that at the south-west angle (Robinsons).The spring of Wilsons Arch is at level of 2,391 5 feet, whereas that ofRobinsons is at 2,387-5. Thi; three fn-st stones of the arch appear toform part of ilie Sanctuary wall ; but this is not quite ascertained. Itis sucrcfcsted that this arch as it now stands cannot be (earlier tlian the
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fifth or sixth century. Colonel Wilson suggests that it was rebuilt inits present form by Constantine or Justinian; but its reconstructionshould more probably be ascribed to a still later date. The western pier was examined by a shaft sunk at 7 feet from thesouthern end of the arch. It consists of two walls—that to the east 10 feetthick, and that to the west 4 feet thick—of different kinds of masonry.At the point where the walls were examined there was a space of 6 inchesbetween them, which probably increased towards the north, in which JERUSALEM. i97 direction the walls splay outwards about 12 Inches. The total thicknessof the pier at the point examined was 14 feet 6 inches. The east face of the pier (10 feet thick), for 25 feet down from thespringing of the arch, is built of large, .squared, well-dressed stones withoutmarginal drafts, and similar to those to be found above the drafted stonesin the Wailing Place. There are seven courses of these stones, and theyvary from 3 feet i

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