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It is located 140 km south-east of Taif in Bani al-Harith land in the Dama Valley. It was built by using big and locally cut red rocks arranged in long rows. The dam was made of four zigzag walls and its length reaches to 11.30 meters, width 2 meters and its height 4 meters. It has terraced tops at the south-eastern side. Also it has an un-dated inscription on one of the rocks at a height. Grygeer Dam: It is located in the Grygeer Valley, which represents integrated building style with the exception of some rocks that spread beneath it. This dam is considered to be a unique in its design and its top surface serving as the outlet and the flood drainage channel in its base. Its length is about 37 meters, 2 meters width and a height of 18 meters. Al Lusb Dam: It is located to the east of the highway about 10 km from the Waddi Ardah. It represents a thick built wall. It was built on a rocky outcrop in the middle of a narrow channel of five meters width. Now it is completely destroyed in the middle, leaving only a small part on the eastern side. The remaining antiquities show the height of the dam must have been over than 50 meters. Along its neighborhood are the remains of some abandoned houses. Pottery bits have been found at sites dating back to the pre-Islamic era. Thalbah Dam: This dam is located about seven kilometers from Taif. It was built of cut square stones, in the form two parallel walls covered by sand and lime mortar. When built, its length is believed to have been 78.9 meters, width 9.60 meters and a height of 9 meters at its maximum altitude in the middle. Seesid Dam: It is located in the Seesid Valley in the north-east of Taif. It is built of stones as large rectangular building blocks laid horizontally. The dam has a length of 58 meters, 4.10 meters width and 8.5 meters height. The dam is popular because it was built in the era of Umayyad Caliph Muawiya bin Abi Sufyan, that is revealed on an inscription dating back to the year 58 H/677-678 CE, stating the text ion as follows: This dam is for Abdullah Muawiya Commander of the Faithful, built by Abdullah bin Saqr In the name of the God in the fifty-eighth year God forgive Abdullah Muawiya
Amir of the believers, May God secure and support him and the believers profit from him Wrote Omer Bin Al Habab Al Agrab Dam: This dam was established on Al Agrab Valley, approximately twenty kilometers in the north-east of Taif city. It is one of the two-parallel walls of dam, filled with pebbles. It is characterized by the presence of an outlet to regulate the flow of water from the middle. Its total length is 113 meters and the width 5 meters. The dam is in good condition even today. Two kilometers on the north-western side is an undated inscription. Perhaps the inscription is related to this dam considering that there were no suitable engraving stones nearer to the dam. Al Haseed Dam: It is located 14 kilometers from Khybar Municipality on a branch of Ghars Valley. Its total length is 60 meters, and its lowest altitude is 6 meters. It was built by using stone blocks from Al Hurah site and it is graded on both sides. Its front façade is divided into two parts. The walls on top are raised on each side to provide a corridor across the dame and in the middle at the bottom is an arched hole, a conduit to control the discharge of water. Al Mashquq Dam: It is an ancient dam in Khyber located to the east of Al Shareef and to the north of the Khyber Municipality. The dam was built on one of the branches of Shaib Halhal valley. Its total length is about 100 meters. The plaster covering the dam wall has been peeled. The western façade of the dam is graded. In the southern end there are still remains of a draining hole or a channel. As a result of the accumulation of silt gradually with the passage of time, the dam is unable to store large amounts of water. Al Qusaibah Dam: It is also called Sa'd Al Bent (The Girl Dam) which was built on the course of a narrow stream of Al Gharas Valley in Hura't Khyber, 30 kilometers to the southeast of Khyber city. It is considered as one of the largest and most ancient heritage dams in the Kingdom. The original length of it was around 205 meters. But only 170 meters of it remains. Its height, from the bottom of the valley reaches approximately 30 meters. The dam is built in the form of a graded phased approach on both the sides. A layer of mortar is added to the side, parallel to the reservoir. The dam had experienced several kinds of ravages and destructions and therefore some of its facilities have disappeared. It seems that the dam had a large lake on the rear, which led to the escalation of the water level in the Hura't Khyber in addition to reclamation of agricultural land and increasing its fertility.
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