Surveys carried out by a team from the
Durham University in the early 1990s showed evidence of
Ubaid Period stone age occupation (knapped flint), as well as a collection of 16
Hafit period corbelled stone beehive tombs.
Umm Al-Nar period burials were also uncovered, as well as evidence of
Wadi Suq pottery. The discovery of red-ridged Barbar Ware speaks of trade with 'Dilmum', or
Bahrain, during the transitional period between the end of the Umm Al-Nar period and the ensuing Wadi Suq period. Evidence has also been found at Khatt of
Sasanian occupation and pottery, and - contemporaneous with the nearby port and settlement of Julphar - Chinese blue and white porcelain dating to between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Al Qasimi Rule Khatt was an
Al Qasimi settlement, populated in the main by members of the
Naqbiyin, 'Awanat and Sharqiyin tribes – today the Al Naqbi Tower still stands in the village. Dominating the population, the settlement of the Naqbiyin is said to have taken place over a period of 300 years. The Sheikh of Khatt was a signatory to the
General Maritime Treaty of 1820 with the British. The treaty was issued in triplicate and signed at mid-day on 8 January 1820 in Ras Al Khaimah by Major-General
William Keir Grant together with Sheikh Hassan Bin Rahman. Hassan was styled "Sheikh of Hatt and Falna" (Hatt being modern day Khatt) because he had ceded Ras Al Khaimah town to the British for use as a garrison town. Other tribal Sheikhs of the Omani coast signed soon after. The maritime peace notwithstanding, Khatt was subject to the occasional depredations of bedouin from the interior and, in 1888, a feud between the people of Ras Al Khaimah and the mountain-dwelling
Shihuh tribe resulted in several townspeople being murdered and over 200 date palms in Khatt being destroyed.
Lorimer noted, in 1908, 100 houses and 20,000 palm trees at Khatt. == Springs ==