Khirbet Beit al-Habs
It is located 5 km west of Salfit, and rises about 380 meters above sea level on the northern bank of Wadi Al-Matwi, at the foot of a mountain connected from the eastern, western, and northern sides, and steep from the southern side. There is a defensive wall built of medium-sized stones surrounding the ruin, and the width of this wall ranges between 1-1.5 m. In the middle of its southern facade there is an entrance with a width of approximately 1.5 m. In the middle part of the site there is a roofed and vaulted building with a height of 3 m, and an area of about 4 x 3 m. The facades of the building were built from the inside with stones of medium size, then were covered with a layer of clay mixed with broken pottery and small pebbles.
There are two caves in the interior facades of the building from the north and south sides. The area of the northern cave is approximately 4 x 3 m, and the southern cave is approximately 2 x 3 m. Their ceilings are genuinely low, and it is not possible to enter them except by crawling, due to the dirt rubble. Next to the northern entrance to the cave, there is a circular slab with several holes of unequal width. It was used to close the entrance to the cave, which was used as a prison for the people of Khirbet Bayt al-Habs. There is an oval-shaped attic in the western wall, on which there are traces of soot as it was used to put saddles, and next to this building there is a water well carved in the rock in the shape of a pear. It is covered from the inside with a thick layer of a mixture of pebbles.
On the southwestern side of the ruin, they found a room that is buried into the ground from which only the surface of the northern facade is visible. This is due to unjust excavation in search of antiquities. The room is built from the outside with large, rectangular stones with horizontal blocks. At a distance of 3 meters, there is a perforated stone in the middle, which was apparently used to put the door latch, as well as a rectangular stone with a length of 1.5 meters and a width of 50 cm; and it was used as a cover for one of the graves.
It has been shown through archaeological surveys that the site was inhabited and used in the ancient and Islamic periods: Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, and Abbasid.