Even Herod the Great, in his huge building projects in first-century B.C. Palestine, used widely differing sizes of ashlars. For example, at Samaria, in the western part of his defense wall, he used ashlars that are generally about one-half the size of the stones he used in Jerusalem; moreover, at Samaria the width of the margins and especially the thickness of the boss are relatively greater than at Jerusalem (cf. Laperrousaz, Syria 50 [1973], p. 388). So we should not conclude that because of differences in the size of ashlars or margins that the masonry is not contemporaneous.