During December 2010, a salvage excavation was conducted on Telamim Street in Kefar Shemaryahu (Permit No. A-6069; map ref. 183426–34/676906–13), in the wake of discovering antiquities during the installation of a sewer pipe. The excavation, undertaken on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority and underwritten by the Kefar Shemaryahu Local Council, was directed by A. Dayan, with the assistance of Y. Lavan and Y. Amrani (administration), M. Kunin (surveying), A. Gorzalczany (archaeological guidance), S. Yehielov (preliminary inspections) and D. Barkan of the IAA Central Region.
One square was opened and a cluster of different size elliptical fieldstones was exposed in hamra soil (L107; Figs. 1, 2). Body fragments of pottery vessels dating to the Byzantine, Umayyad and Mamluk period (not drawn) and flint debitage were uncovered next to and between the cluster of stones. The cluster was documented and the stones were removed until sterile soil was reached.