** Dvir Raviv, Binyamin Har-Even & Aharon Tavger Khirbet el-Qutt – A Fortifed Jewish Village in Southern Samaria from the Second Temple Period and the Bar Kokhba Revolt Dvir Raviv, Binyamin Har-Even & Aharon Tavger* Khirbet el-Qutt is located on an elongated hill-top 650 m above sea-level, approximately one km south of the village Lubban Sharqiya (New Israel Grid 22295/66332). The site overlooks the Lebonah valley, the road passing through it and the ancient “Lebonah Ascent,” and is surrounded by steep slopes on all sides, apart from the south, where it is connected by a narrow saddle to the continuation of the hill-range (Fig. 1). The settlement remains extend across the hill-top and its southern and eastern slopes, over an area of around 20 dunams. The site was frst surveyed at the end of the sixties by Z. Kallai and his team, who reported remains of walls, cisterns, caves and pottery from the Early Bronze age, Iron II, Roman and Byzantine periods (Kallai 1972: 169, site 37). Some ffteen years later, I. Finkelstein and his team visited the site and reported remains of walls and pottery from the Iron II, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Early Muslim periods (Finkelstein et al. 1997: 623–624). A survey conducted in the nineties by E. Maharian of the Staff Offcer of Archaeology of Judea and Samaria uncovered a hewn miqveh (ritual bath), 500 m. south-south-east of the site (Zissu 2001: 26–27). Eight years ago, E. Klein recorded the aforementioned miqveh and also a large water- installation close to the saddle south of the site (Klein 2009: 188). Klein also reported eight burial caves with loculi and another installation that he identifed as a miqveh (Klein 2007: 39). We surveyed the site in October-November 2014 in the framework of the “New South Samaria Survey.” 1 In the course of the survey, we recorded the remains of the settlement on the hill-top and its southern and eastern slopes (Fig. 2). Among the remains were buildings, cisterns, Fig. 1: Khirbet el-Qutt from south (photo by Dvir Raviv)