This large mound (c. 100 x 120 m, 6.5 . high) stands on the edge of the Shimal plain to the north of Ras al-Khaimah city. Excavations here since 1994 by a British expedition have revealed a long sequence of occupation extending from the time of the Sasanians (perhaps third/fourth centuries AD as in Area F at al-Dur) to the early fourteenth century. In the intervening periods there are abundant examples of imported Iraqi (Samarran), Iranian and Far Eastern ceramics which, taken together, provide an important archaeological sequence for the northern Emirates over the course of roughly 1000 years. Amongst the more exotic finds was a coffee bean, the earliest yet recovered in the UAE.
Kush is likely to represent a town which was the forerunner of the later emporium of Julfar, closer to the coast.