| Visited
by Neal Spencer in 2004, who reports as follows:
Surrounded by fields, this tell has no modern settlement upon or adjacent to it, though an area at the west of the site is used for penning animals. The topography is relatively even, and the surface is covered in halfa-grass. There is very little surface pottery in the south-western part, where some open sections revealed strata of relatively clean sand. The east of the site was notable for the amount of limestone chips (<10cm) on the surface, and a concentration of ceramics: Egyptian amphora handles; a brown Roman amphora spike, Coptic amphora sherds with interior ribbing, and a thick amphora handle from Teos (6th century BC or later). Shallow open sections in this area display sandy and ashy strata. Fragments of fired brick were noted on the surface, but no structures were visible. |
Photograph
taken by Neal Spencer in 2004
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