The earliest architectural phase contained a refuse pit (L109; depth 0.9–1.1 m below topsoil), at the bottom of which lay brownish orange soil that contained light-colored calcite aggregates (Fig. 3). Black Gaza Ware pottery from the Ottoman period recovered from the pit included zavdiya-type bowls (Fig. 4:1) and jars with a plain and pointed rim (Fig. 4:10, 11). A variety of glass vessels and artifacts were also found in the pit, including a perfume-bottle stopper (Fig. 5:1) and part of a chandelier (Fig. 5:2). It also yielded porcelain vessels, including cups decorated with colorful geometric and vegetal designs (Fig. 5:3–5) and metal items of a type that were still in use in the mid-twentieth century CE. Among these were an iron horseshoe and an iron joint from the end of a shaft that was probably used to harness a cart to a draft animal (not drawn).
Two walls (W50, W51; Fig. 6) that formed a corner of a building belong to the later architectural phase. The walls were constructed of two rows of kurkar stones, some of them dressed; their foundations and part of the lower course were preserved. The wall’s foundation, consisting of soil and kurkar-stone fragments, penetrated the refuse pit from the earlier phase (Fig. 7). A gray floor composed of soil mixed with lime (L102; 0.10–0.15 thick; see Figs. 3, 6) abutted the walls. The floor bedding (0.4–0.5 m thick) was made of locally sourced light-brown soil mixed with well-tamped kurkar stones; it yielded a few metal artifacts, including an iron masonry chisel (Fig. 5:6). A courtyard floor (L103, L106) similar in makeup to the one discovered inside the building was unearthed to its north. A metal-alloy vessel with two nozzles (Fig. 5:7) was discovered in the bedding of the floor. A circular installation (silo? L106; Fig. 8) was partially incorporated into courtyard floor. Its wall was cast from a bonding material mixed with lime, and its interior face was lined with tightly packed mudbrick material. Assorted items of Black Gaza Ware from the Ottoman period were found on the floors of the building and the courtyard; among them were two zavdiya-type bowls, one with a simple rounded rim (Fig. 4:2) and one with an upright rim (Fig. 4:3). Also recovered were a bowl with an elongated, protruding rim (Fig. 4:4) and jara-type water jars that have a cylindrical neck with a thumb-indented ridge (Fig. 4:12).
Finds from the surface (L100, L101) consisted of a large amount of Black Gaza Ware pottery, including plain bowls with carinated rims (Fig. 4:5); a small, shallow krater with an upright grooved rim (Fig. 4:6); kraters with a curved ridged rim (Fig. 4:7, 8); a krater with a grooved and decorated ledge rim (Fig. 4:9); and the spout of a drinking jug retaining the stump of an upright loop-handle (Fig. 4:13).