Adrou

History

• 

  Mentioned by Ptolemy as a town; this must originally have been a Nabataean trade station; there was a source
• Existing security network of watchtowers; site was occupied in the third century
• Fort built in 303/304 by soldiers of the Sixth Legion Ferrata
• On a hill with a great view; on the western part of a fertile plain; itself on an east-facing slope
• Similar to Bethhorus/Lejjun; 4.7 hectares
• Built on foundations of basalt, with limestone ashlar mortar stones for the walls themselves
• Episcopal see in the fifth and sixth centuries; Arabized before the advance of Islam
• In Byzantine times renamed Augustopolis

Udruh, West wall	Udruh, West wall	Udruh, West gate	Udruh, West wall and tower