Tower No. |
Map Ref. (NIG; OIG) |
Dimensions |
Construction |
Floor |
Finds |
Remarks |
1 (Fig. 1) |
21030/62320; 16030/12320 |
4.7 × 6.2 m, preserved height 1.4 m (4 courses) |
Large roughly hewn fieldstones; northwestern wall was not preserved |
Plaster remains on bedrock |
Pottery fragments from the end of the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods (1st century BCE) |
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2 (Fig. 2) |
21028/62320; 16028/12320 |
3.05 × 4.80 m, preserved height 0.5 m (1 course) |
Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones |
Bedrock surface; hewn pit on its western side (0.7 × 1.6 m, depth 0.73 m) |
Base of a stone measuring cup from the Early Roman period |
Located c. 20 m west of Tower 1 |
3 (Fig. 3) |
21020/62370; 16120/12370 |
Diam. 3.7 m, preserved height 1.12 m (2 courses) |
Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones |
Bedrock surface |
Pottery fragments from Iron Age II |
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4 (Fig. 4) |
21020/62368; 16120/ 12368 |
6.3 × 7.8 m, preserved height 1.2 m (up to 4 courses) |
Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones |
Plaster remains noted on bedrock |
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Tower has two rooms; it is located c. 20 m south of Tower 3 |
5 (Fig 5) |
21120/62375; 16120/12375 |
2.5 × 2.5 m, preserved height 1.3 m (3 courses) |
Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones |
Beaten earth deposited on bedrock |
Pottery fragments from Iron Age II |
Animal pen built of small and medium- sized fieldstones and preserved 5 courses high (1.1 m) was adjacent to the northern side of tower; a wall (length 8.6 m) of roughly hewn fieldstones, preserved 1 course high (0.4 m) abutted the tower’s southern corner. |
6 (Fig. 6) |
21130/62371; 16130/12371 |
3.15 × 3.90 m, preserved height 1.2 m (3 courses) |
Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones; the entrance was probably in the northeastern wall. Three narrow windows (0.3–0.6 × 0.4 m) were in the southwestern wall. |
Beaten earth deposited on bedrock |
Pottery fragments from Iron Age II and the Early Roman period |
A rock-cut winepress southeast of the tower. It was partially enclosed with stone walls and consisted of a square treading surface (3.1 × 3.2 m) with plaster remains, an oval settling pit (0.4 × 0.8 m, depth 0.36 m) and a collecting vat (diam. 1.2 m, depth 1.4 m) to the south; two fieldstone walls that may have been part of an animal pen, which did not survive abutted the northern side of the tower. |
7(Fig. 7) |
21100/62340; 16100/12340 |
3.05 × 3.20 m, preserved height 1.35 m (4 courses) |
Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones; a narrow window (0.4 × 0.5 m) in the eastern wall |
Beaten earth deposited on bedrock |
Pottery fragments from Iron Age II and the Early Roman period |
A rock-cut winepress to the east of the tower. It consisted of a square treading surface (2.5 × 3.1 m), mostly enclosed with stone walls and a collecting vat (diam. 1.4 m, depth 1.26 m) enclosed on the west with a stone wall |