A burial complex hewn into the kurkar (calcareous sandstone cliffs).
The complex was used by residents of Apollonia, a Byzantine city of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, and comprised a portion of a hewn burial complex which extended along the second kurkar ridge from the seacoast.
Many burials took place here, Some were closed with a roll-stone, or with marble or stone doors; several were paved with mosaic tiles, while others had red-painted walls.
The use of the site ended with the Samaritan revolt in the beginning of the sixth century (529CE).
