sentences:  Connecting the village to the chief spring was a rock tunnel said to be "of great antiquity," the entrance of which was known only to those well acquainted with the site.This cavern or tunnel, known in Arabic as "Mgharat Bīr el-Hasuta", ("Cave of the Well of Hasuta") is "evidently artificial," and was hewn into the rock.Some 250 feet long, it runs in a south-south-west direction from the village emerging as a vertical shaft (6 ft x 5 ft x 10 ft deep) about 60 yards away from the spring that supplied the village with water.