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DigsSite Name: Tel Lachish Alternative Name: Tel LachisCountry: Israel Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Kiryat Gat Nearest Village: Moshav Lachish
Latitude: 31.564645N Longitude: 34.849051E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Tel Lachish is one of the largest, richest and most important archaeological sites from the Old Testament period in southern Palestine. It covers an area of nearly 40 acres. The site is located in the Shephelah, near one of the main routes leading from the coastal plain to the Judean hills.
Lachish was continuously settled from the Chalcolithic period in the 4th millennium BCE till the end of the Persian period in the middle of the first millennium BCE. The accumulation of debris in parts of the mound reaches 12 m. (about 35 feet).
Note: Gate shrine from the First Temple period unearthed in Tel Lachish National Park, Israel
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