Descriptive Attribute	Value(s)
Stage Description	Construction including the cutting of a shallow builder's trench for the south colonnade.
Architectural or Soil Locus?	Soil
Cuts	Cut into Locus 26.
Definition	South and East Wall Builders’ Trench System
Description	The builders’ trench system is cut into the bedrock and extends, uninterrupted, alongside the north edge of the south wall, rounding the south wall’s eastern corner to hug the west edge of the east wall maintaining an average width of 0.45 m. The fill within the trench, considered as part of this locus as it has not been excavated, is hard packed and has a rubble matrix.
Stage	Stage 1 con't
Bottom (m)	Closing Levels: Unknown.
Underlies	Loci 2, 20.
Location	Along the base of the northern face of the south wall (Locus 2) and the western face of the east wall (Locus 23).
Top (m)	Opening Levels: 905.664 m (alongside South Wall), 905.478 m (alongside East Wall).
Overlies	None.
Phase	II
Combined with	None.
Phase Description	Phase II: First period of major Nabataean construction at the Great Temple complex in the 1st c. BCE. The...