A salvage excavation carried out in 2019 by the IAA on the western bank of Naḥal Bohu (to the west of the modern town of Netivot) revealed remains of Byzantine-period winepresses and a pottery workshop. Within the area of the workshop an ashy layer was found, perhaps a shallow refuse deposit that contained pottery sherds and other finds from the early Ottoman period, which likely testify to low-scale, temporary occupation of the site.13 The Ottoman-period pottery was dominated by Gaza Ware vessels, all of which were made of pale grey fabric, including two that were also coated on both sides with a greyish-cream self-slip; the remaining pottery represents sherds of storage jars made of a somewhat coarse Pale Ware fabric which are typologically characteristic of the late Mamluk and early Ottoman periods (see below). Alongside these sherds a smoking pipe of a 17th- to 18th-century type was found, which reinforces the dating of the discussed pottery to the early Ottoman period.
