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Tel Abel Beth Maacah, Arabic name: Tell Abil el-Qameḥ, is a large archaeological site consisting of a mound with an small upper northern section and a large lower southern one, connected by a saddle. It is located on the northern border of present-day Israel, about 2 km south of the town of Metulla and about 6.5 km west of Tel Dan.
The recent survey and excavations performed so far (2012-2016) have shown that the site has been inhabited during the Bronze and Iron Ages, the Persian, Hellenistic, Byzantine, Early Islamic, Crusader, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. However, the lower mound was not occupied after the Iron Age I (early 10th century BCE), and it has served until at least 1948 as agricultural land.
As of 2016, the only datable city fortifications excavated so far are from the Middle and Late Bronze Age; the Late Bronze Age fortifications went out of commission in Iron Age I. Iron Age I remains include a cultic structure, a public and perhaps administrative complex, and a metal workshop. A large well-built stone building dates from the Persian-early Hellenistic period.
Since at least the early 13th century and until 1948 the double mound was the location of the Arab village of Abil al-Qamh. In 1948 it was a small rural community whose houses occupied about one-third of the mound.