News from the Field: Defensive Judean Counter-Ramp Found at Lachish in 1983 Season, David Ussishkin, Biblical Archaeology Review (10:2), Mar/Apr 1984

Assyrian Siege Ramp at Lachish. By Wilson44691 – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15414507
The British excavations at Lachish led by J. L. Starkey in the 1930s had discovered and partially excavated the Assyrian siege ramp outside the city wall. In 1977 our own expedition to Lachish cut a small trench into the ramp to determine how it had been built. At that time, we also surveyed the area around the ramp, inside as well as outside the wall.
This effort to understand the Assyrian siege ramp and the implications to be drawn from it directed us to the location of the Assyrian siege camp.
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