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Giv‘at Pazra (Southeast), Survey
Final Report

 Oren Zingboym 
16/2/2009


1. The survey map.  


2. Dolmen (10), looking north.  


3. Dolmen (12), looking west.  


4. Two dolmens (15), looking south.  



 

During October 2007, a survey prior to development was conducted southeast of Giv‘at Pazra in the Golan Heights (Permit No. A-5278; map ref. NIG 2784–91/7680–915; OIG 2284–91/2680–915), prior to the allocation of land for agriculture. The survey, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and underwritten by the World Zionist Organization, was conducted by O. Zingboym and A. Shapiro.
The survey (c. 500 dunams; Fig. 1) was conducted along a basalt plain that gently descends to the west, within the precincts of an extensive dolmen field. The survey area is divided by a path, leading to a well that belongs to the Mēy Golan Association. The area to the south of the path had been prepared and cleared of stones over many years and only a few ancient remains were preserved on that side. Only a few stones were cleared from the area to the north of the path and therefore, more ancient remains had survived. Eighteen sites with ancient finds, including field walls, animal pens and stone heaps, were documented.
1. A long field wall.
2. Stone heap (diam. 2.5 m).
3. Small stone heap.
4. A field wall built in a naturally high area.
5. Stone heap (diam. c. 3 m).
6. Concentration of twelve stone heaps of different sizes, probably piles of stone clearance.
7. Concentration of seven stone heaps, probably piles of stone clearance.
8. A circular field wall (diam. c. 4 m).
9. A large stone circle (diam. c. 40 m) that may delineate an animal pen. Several small stone heaps were documented inside the circle.
10. A dolmen enclosed within a circle of stones (Fig. 2). A tree is growing in the middle of an open, plundered burial cell; the cover stones are lying alongside the cell.
11. A built stone circle (diam. c. 5 m), probably a robbed and ruinous dolmen.
12. A ruinous dolmen enclosed within a stone circle (diam. c. 3 m; Fig. 3).
13. A field wall delineating an animal pen (diam. c. 15 m).
14. A field wall delineating an animal pen (diam. c. 25 m).
15. Two dolmens enclosed within stone circles, which were partially preserved (Fig. 4). The burial cell of one of the dolmens was robbed and the cell of the other was filled with soil and open, without any cover stones (2.0 × 2.8 m).
16. A field wall that delineates an animal pen, within which several small stone clearance heaps were documented.
17. A low stone heap that may be a robbed and ruinous dolmen.
18. Stone heap (diam. c. 4 m).


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   1. The survey map.


   2. Dolmen (10), looking north.


   3. Dolmen (12), looking west.


   4. Two dolmens (15), looking south.

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