Qasr Bardawil

Qasr Bardawil (Arabic: قصر بردويل; French: Château de Baudouin) is a Bronze-Age fort in the Golan Heights, previously misidentified as a Crusader castle.

Qasr Bardawil
قصر بردويل
Golan Heights
1935 aerial view of the site
Qasr Bardawil
Coordinates32°49′11.23″N 35°44′32.57″E
Height250 m
Site information
ConditionRuined

Identification

The older identification with the Crusader Castle of al-Al, otherwise known only from chronicles, has been abandoned once the site of Qasr Bardawil has been conclusively dated to the Bronze Age.[1][2]

Paul Deschamps, who had surveyed the area in the 1930s, had identified the fortified spur with a Crusader castle mentioned in the Demascene chronicle of Ibn al-Qalanisi.[1] Deschamps argued that Qasr Bardawil was a Crusader castle, which dominated the village of al-'Al from a strategic position that controlled the Roman road from Baysan to Damascus, and located some 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) east of the Lake of Tiberias.[2]

References
  1. Pringle 1997, p. 117.
  2. Sinibaldi 2014, pp. 17–18, 56–57.

Sources
  • Pringle, Denys (1997). Secular Buildings in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: An Archaeological Gazetteer. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521460101.
  • Sinibaldi, Micaela (2014). Settlement in Crusader Transjordan (1100–1189): a Historical and Archaeological Study (PDF). Cardiff University (PhD in Archaeology thesis). pp. 17–18, 56–57. Retrieved 7 September 2020.
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