Description: at the level of the Temple of the Sun:
"loose block 2, set on platform for better access." from Protzen, Jean-Pierre, Inca Architecture and Construction at Ollantaytambo. Oxford Univ.Press, 1993
Description: beside the 'First Wall': cut stones carved to imitate natural bedrock, part of the Incan sensibility of harmonizing their work with nature
Description: Terrace of the Enclosure of the Ten Niches: E end, close detail of most easterly niche showing typical trapezoidal Inca shape and textures (among of the best examples of Inca stone work)
Description: example of a T-socket cut into the building block, presumably two adjoining blocks were joined by cramps made by pouring copper or bronze into the T-shaped sockets
