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Butler Diary: Northern and Central Syria I, 1899
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Barrish Kefr Kîla & Dêr Shim'ûn October 28, 1899
On a ridge running north & south to the westward of Kalb Lauzi are situated two ruins which we visited on the return from Kefr Kîla. The first is the ruin of a small village almost due west of Kefr Kîla. It is much dilapidated and preserves only a fragment of the east wall of an oblong building possibly a church.
This was built in the simplest style. The window heads are semicircles cut in the lintels without mouldings.
The domestic architecture seems to have been entirely in megalithic style of the most primative kind
The second ruin is that of small monastery with small square tower and plain arched portal preserved.
It is conspicuous as a land mark.
