This site, also known as Kom el-Ahmar ('the red mound'), is still of huge size despite the removal of one side for landfill in the past. The low area of the removed section has Roman limestone coffins lying in the ground. Fired brick features protrude from the cut edge of the mound. The top is covered by thin vegetation, but Late Roman pottery fragments and an Islamic coin were seen. Mapped by P Wilson for the Delta Survey in 2002 and drill-cores taken.
Egypt Exploration Society Delta Survey no. 212
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