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by Penny Wilson in 2004, who reports as follows:
This site is located next to the Ezbet Kom en Nawwam, location of the tomb of Sidi Hassan Nawwam in, the doorway of which includes a granite block. The central area of the site is flat, dark brown and dusty, and is now used as a football pitch, although there are at least three large boulders of granite lying half buried in the area. On the eastern side there is a marshy lake which must represent a dug out area filled with rain water and perhaps ground water. It seemed to have steeply sloping sides and even here was over 0.75m deep. The village lies directly east of this pool. On the western side was another set of houses adjoining the flat area and within this part of the village there was a red brick and mortar construction being used as a duck coop. This may simply have been an old building from the village or have been an ancient monument. To the south of the flat area and in a small strip to the north between the football pitch and the road, the area had been excavated by the SCA leaving many small 1m by 1m pits, now filled with rubbish and water. This land must have been finished and released by the excavation. On the north-eastern side of the site there is a small mound (containing pottery), now covered by a cemetery and the Sidi Nawwam tomb. A small excavated area on the west side of the pool contained a mixture of pottery, broken limestone and burnt (vitrified) red bricks, perhaps from the destruction of the site. The area for the site
given in the main pages does not include the villages on the east and west.
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