Middle Bronze The
Middle Bronze Age IIA city was fortified with a city wall, built of earth, mud-bricks and stone, and surrounded by a moat. The wall was 4.5 meters wide, and a watch tower was incorporated in it. The moat was 10 meters wide. The depth of its lowest course is unknown, because the excavators reached groundwater and could not dig further. At some point the wall was destroyed and then renewed.
Iron Age In the
Iron Age (11th century BCE), the site had a large mud-brick
citadel, and a
casemate wall.
Four room houses of this period were discovered, as well. Iron Age burials in storage jars were found at Tel Zeror. until it was destroyed in the eighth century BCE by the invading
Assyrians, and then resettled later in the sixth century BCE.
Hellenistic Period During the
Hellenistic period there was a rounded watch tower on the northern hill, with a spiral staircase, for an agriculturally oriented settlement ("manor farm").
Byzantine Period In the
Byzantine period, the area south of the tel was populated.
Middle Ages In the
Mamluke period there was a town on the southern hill called Tel a-Dhurer. In the 13th and 14th centuries CE, the northern hill became a Muslim burial ground. Burials were simple or stone-lined, bodies positioned on the side, with the face to the south. Tel a-Dhurer existed until 1948. ==Archaeology==