Savage et al. 2003:457–458 report that the mosaic floor in an eastern room just south of the Byzantine church is “extensively dented by collapsed wall stones.” They note that the “concentrated pattern of stone fall and floor damage suggests a sudden structural failure rather than gradual decay,” and interpret the end of use as destruction caused by an earthquake. The same authors state that “coins, architectural stratigraphy, and mosaic style” indicate that the room was “contemporary with the sixth-century church.” They further report that during the Umayyad period “damaged mosaic edges were repaired with flat paving stones,” and that in the Ayyubid–Mamluk period “new walls were constructed directly on top of the mosaic floors,” implying that the dented floor damage most likely occurred in the Umayyad to Abbasid or Fatimid period.