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A ring wall encircles mound 5. Excavated by Ruth Amiran half a century ago, the ring wall consists of 17 sections, each five meters long (about 16 feet, or 10 Biblical cubits). Amiran also found a platform with the burnt remains of a pyre. She believed (though not wholeheartedly) that Jerusalem’s mounds were tombs even though no burials were found within them.