(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Another season of excavation in Jerusalem on the Ophel Hill is to be started as soon as possible, the Palestine Exploration Fund announces in the current issue of its “Statement” which has just been published. The decision, it says, was come to at a very largely attended meeting of the Executive Committee of the Fund. The results of the previous excavation, the “Statement” proceeds, though undoubtedly important, were not conclusive as regards the extent of the Davidic and pre-Davidic Jerusalem. It is felt that a site of so extraordinarily interesting a character merits further investigation with the good hope of discoveries of first-class importance. To abandon this site now might well mean to do so for ever. The previous excavations were only suspended on account of exhausted funds and never really abandoned.
The prospect of immediate excavation with the spring, it is added, is made possible on account of an arrangement which has been come to with the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, whereby their new Director, Mr. Crowfoot, and his assistant, Mr. Fitzgerald, will under certain conditions undertake the management and direction of the excavation.
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