In the past, remains of structures and agricultural installation were uncovered at the site, dating from the Early Bronze Age to the Byzantine period (Kogan-Zehavi 2017), as well as remains of a settlement from the Chalcolithic period, which included dwelling caves and rock-cut installations that yielded impressive copper artefacts (Sheftelowitz 2003). 
 
The excavation exposed six agricultural terraces (length 2.366.5 m, width 0.40.5 m; Fig. 2), six rock-cut cupmarks (diam. 0.31.7 m, depth 0.100.35 m), a stone clearance heap (diam. 26 m) and five quarries (Table 1; Figs. 3–5). A natural cave (Fig. 6) yielded a clay-pipe fragment (below). Over the cave, an animal pen was found (Fig. 7), bounded by three walls (the southern wall was not preserved, and with a wide (5 m) opening.
 
Table 1. Quarries
No.
Dimensions (m)
Size of stones (m)
Illustration
1
2.2 × 2.6
0.50 × 0.85
Fig. 3
2
1.8 × 3.1
0.4 × 0.9
 
3
6.0 × 12.9 
0.4 × 1.2, 0.5 × 0.8, 0.45 × 0.65
 
4
5.8 × 6.4
0.5 × 1.0, 0.4 × 1.45, 0.35 ×1.80
Fig. 4
5
5.8 × 6.4
0.85 × 2.10, 0.45 × 1.10
Fig. 5
 
Clay pipe
Lior Rauchberger
 
In the cave, a fragment of a tobacco-smoking pipe was found (chibuk; 1.3 cm diam. of stem opening), mold-made in two parts: a bowl and a stem that were joined. The bowl is spherical, decorated with a horizontal band of rouletting in a grid pattern under the rim, which was not preserved. The stem is short, with a simple reinforcing ring of triangular section. The stem continues under the bowl as a keel, decorated with two rouletting bands in a grid pattern that create a V-shape, bounded by a double incised line. A small ridge within the bowl prevented tobacco leaves from clogging the stem. The stem preserves marks of the joining of the two separately molded parts. The pipe is of a common type, classified by M. Avissar based on assemblages found at Tel Yoqne‘am and dated to the second half of the eighteenth century CE (Avissar 1996:199–200, Photos XVI.10–14; 2005:83–88, 93, Fig. 4.1:4–9, Fig. 4.2, Type 2).