Twenty-one sites were documented in the survey area (c. 17 sq km; Fig. 1). The region had previously been examined by a team of surveyors headed by Y. Olami (Map of Dor [30]; Map of Daliya [31]). Four landscape units are evident in the area: (1) a narrow flat strip along the shore and three parallel kurkar ridgeseast of it that run in a general northeast-southwest direction; (2) valleys filled with alluvial accumulations situated between the kurkar ridges; (3) the Carmel Ridge; and (4) Ramat Menashe. Much of the survey area was completely covered with low vegetation and some of the area was disturbed in recent years by construction, quarrying or agriculture.

Sites 1, 2 (Site 1—map ref. 203529/724990; Site 2—map ref. 203488/725412). Stone clearance heaps and remains of farming terrace walls. A few potsherds that dated to the Roman period were gathered in the vicinity of the walls.

 

Site 3 (map ref. 203364/725787). Remains of ruins (Horbat Qetina and Horbat Qipoz) and a well (Map of Daliya [31], Sites 50, 63, 64).

 

Site 4 (map ref. 203230/725386). An extensive potsherd scattering and a concentration of flint artifacts. The potsherds dated to the Persian, Roman, Byzantine and Mamluk periods.

 

Site 5 (map ref. 201817/724779). Quarrying remains in hard limestone bedrock.

 

Site 6 (map ref. 201280/724908). A wall built of medium-sized fieldstones and oriented northeast-southwest.

 

Site 7 (map ref. 200898/724838). A winepress hewn in hard limestone bedrock and consisting of a rectangular treading floor (2.5 × 3.0 m) and a rectangular collecting vat (1.7 × 2.0, depth 0.8 m).

 

Sites 8, 9 (Site 8—map ref. 198808/724735; Site 9—map ref. 197622/724848). Farming terrace walls built of different size fieldstones and generally oriented north–south.

 

Site 10 (map ref. 197289/724812). A corner of a building whose walls (width 0.6 m) were built of two adjacent rows of small and medium fieldstones.

 

Site 11 (map ref. 197092/724827). A hewn opening of a cave(?). Silt and dense vegetation at the site hindered the documentation.

 

Site 12 (map ref. 197093/724834). A concentration of flint artifacts.

 

Site 13 (map ref. 196926/724875). A round kiln (diam. c. 3.5 m), partly hewn in hard limestone bedrock and partly built of two rows of medium fieldstones; it was preserved eight courses high.

 

Site 14 (map ref. 196848/724898). A cave (?) hewn in hard limestone bedrock.

 

Site 15 (map ref. 193500/723384). A large quarry and many hewn burial caves were documented on the kurkar ridge. A rock-cutting for a rolling stone, not preserved in situ, was discerned in the opening of one of the caves. A few non-diagnostic potsherds and a fragment of a flint arrowhead, which dated to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, were gathered in the vicinity of the caves.

Site 16 (central map ref. 193485/723250). The antiquities documented in the southern part of the kurkar ridge included rock-cuttings; cisterns; remains of a building (1.5 × 2.5 m) whose walls (width 0.6 m) were built of two adjacent rows of ashlar stones and preserved a single course high; a rock-hewn winepress that included a rectangular treading floor (2.0 × 2.8 m) and a collecting vat; and a potsherd scattering that dated to the Early and Middle Bronze and the Iron Ages.

 

Site 17 (map ref. 193670/722591). A section of an aqueduct that had probably conveyed water to Tel Dor. The aqueduct began in Nahal Daliya, near el-Fureidis and several sections of it had been surveyed in the past (Map of Dor [30], p. 43*).

 

Site 18 (map ref. 193561/722446). Stone clearance heaps and piles of modern refuse.

 

Site 19 (map ref. 193417/722163). Cist tombs (c. 0.6 × 2.3 m) hewn in kurkar bedrock. The tombs were covered with heaps of medium and large kurkar stones, except for one tomb that remained open and empty (Map of Dor [30], Sites 137, 139).

 

Site 20(map ref. 193343/722075). A rectangular pool (c. 2.0 × 2.8 m, depth c. 1.2 m) hewn in kurkar bedrock. Potsherds that dated to the Roman and Byzantine periods and a few industrial tesserae were collected near the pool (Map of Dor [30], Sites 137, 139).

 

Site 21 (map ref. 193337/721912). Horbat Tafat (Map of Dor [30], Sites 137, 139).