Internal report of an archaeological rescue operation at al-Khod, Hor al-Ḏabʿ (al-Ḫawḍ, Ḥūr Aḏ̣-Ḏ̣abʿ), Muscat Governorate, 12.01. to 26.01.2023 for the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, version 1

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Abstract

In September 2018 the population of the capital area reached 1.4 million. Places such as al-Khod need room for growth. The development of this area during the past 20 years includes the building of the Nizwa road, highway 15, to its north-east Lulu al-Bandar super market and flanking to its west a large housing settlement. Tombs are scattered over the three mountains (600m x 300m area). The Ministry of Defence plan to develop the mountains (Fig. 1) as a recreational facility – the ‘Heritage Hill’ project. This document reports first on the excavation and documents 140 burial structures, the excavated finds, the clearance of stone from the tomb cluster on the southern mountain, figures of the 3D and drawings of the tomb floors as well as thumbnails of the tombs ordered sequentially in ascending order.