The area under investigation is located in the lowlands extending between the center of the Samarian Hills and the coastal plain. The excavations exposed farmhouses and various installations, such as field towers, fortified towers, farming terraces, water installations, quarries, limekilns, stone clearance heaps and cupmarks. Based on the finds from these excavations, as well as from previous surveys, it is assumed that Horbat Anusha was already occupied during Iron Age II and the Persian period. A possible ritual bath might indicate an occupation in the Second Temple period. Most of the construction dates to the Byzantine period, including a farmstead complex or a monastery. During the Mamluk period, an estate was established at the site, surrounded by farming terraces. Horbat Leved seems to have been occupied from the Byzantine period to beginning of the Early Islamic period, as well as in Ottoman times. Agriculture was the principal means of subsistence at these sites.