Haret ech Cheikh
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| subdivision_type1 = Governorate
| subdivision_name1 = Mount Lebanon Governorate
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| subdivision_name2 = Matn District
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Haret ech Cheikh (also Haret-Ech-Cheikh), is a municipality in the Matn District in the Mount Lebanon Governorate near Bouchriyeh.{{cite book|author1=Lorraine Copeland|author2=P. Wescombe|title=Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 94|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YsRRwAACAAJ|access-date=21 July 2011|year=1965|publisher=Imprimerie Catholique}}{{Dead link|date=April 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Archaeology
The archaeological site at Haret Ech Cheikh is east of the road between Dekwaneh and Jdeideh, about {{convert|50|m|ft}} above sea level, on the top of a wooded hill. It was discovered by Paul Bovier-Lapierre and Raoul Describes who suggested it may be a high place.Carte Bleu (Guide Blue) 1932Tallon, Maurice, Les Monuments Megalithiques de Syrie et du Liban. MUSJ, vol. 35, 1958. The hilltop has several outcrops of sandstone slabs suggested to be megalithic building foundation or enclosure. The suggested foundations have big stones at the corners that were not securely determined to be prehistoric. Materials collected from the site were Neolithic or Chalcolithic in form and was possibly mixed with that of the adjacent site of Ain Cheikh. Lorraine Copeland and Peter Wescombe collected some fresh, unpatinated flint tools from a position west of the hilltop enclosure where a large amount of factory waste was also found. All material is in the Museum of Lebanese Prehistory, marked with the label "Ain Cheikh". A grandiose villa dominates land covering part of the hill.
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External links
- [http://www.geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1170759&fid=3674&c=lebanon www.geographic.org - entry on Haret ech Cheikh]
{{Matn District}}
{{Archaeological sites in Lebanon}}
Category:Populated places in Matn District
Category:Archaeological sites in Lebanon
Category:Chalcolithic sites of Asia
Category:Neolithic settlements
Category:Neolithic sites of Asia
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