Although this is the name by which scholars frequently refer to this wall, it is also known by a number of other names: the northern line, the northern trace and several names that beg the question (the Third Wall, the Circumvallation Wall, the Barrier Wall).

E. L. Sukenik and L. A. Mayer excavated this wall from 1925 to 1927 and in 1940. See their publications, The Third Wall of Jerusalem (London: Oxford University Press, 1930) and “A New Section of the Third Wall, Jerusalem,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly (1944), pp. 145–151.