Satellite imagery of 2005 shows a group of four small mounds south of the village, the largest occupied by some housing, the other three clear. The most easterly mound has been reduced to a square shape by advance of the cultivation and measures only 70 x 50m. The larger mound was visited for the EES Survey in 2005. The main archaeological area is a high mound of around 8m whose southern and northern faces have been cut away to form sheer sections. The southern sections show sandy brick walls, pottery deposits and human burials in both pottery coffins and brick vaults. On the east side there is a substantial mud brick wall. Within the village there is a bath-house which has been restored recently. Egypt Exploration Society Delta Survey no. 396.
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