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)
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Large roughly hewn fieldstones; northwestern wall was not preserved
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Plaster remains on bedrock
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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)
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Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones
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Bedrock surface; hewn pit on its western side
(0.7 × 1.6 m, depth 0.73 m)
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Base of a stone measuring cup from the Early Roman period
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Located c. 20 m west of Tower 1
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3 (Fig. 3) |
21020/62370; 16120/12370 |
Diam. 3.7 m, preserved height 1.12 m (2 courses)
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Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones
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Bedrock surface
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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)
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Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones
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Plaster remains noted on bedrock
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Tower has two rooms; it is located c. 20 m south of Tower 3
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5 (Fig 5) |
21120/62375; 16120/12375 |
2.5 × 2.5 m, preserved height 1.3 m (3 courses)
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Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones
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Beaten earth deposited on bedrock
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Pottery fragments from Iron Age II
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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.
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6 (Fig. 6) |
21130/62371; 16130/12371 |
3.15 × 3.90 m, preserved height 1.2 m (3 courses)
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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.
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Beaten earth deposited on bedrock
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Pottery fragments from Iron Age II and the Early Roman period
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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.
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7(Fig. 7) |
21100/62340; 16100/12340 |
3.05 × 3.20 m, preserved height 1.35 m (4 courses)
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Roughly hewn medium and large fieldstones; a narrow window (0.4 × 0.5 m) in the eastern wall
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Beaten earth deposited on bedrock
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Pottery fragments from Iron Age II and the Early Roman period
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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
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