Husn Madhab is the name given to a small fortified enclosure perched on top of a spur of the Hajar mountains immediately to the west of Fujairah. It takes its name from the Wadi Madhab at the entrance to which it stands guard. The husn, Arabic for a small fort, is made of unmasoned stone and consists largely of a wall running along the contour of the rock outcrop together with the remains of several rooms. A Swiss team of archaeologists investigated Husn Madhab in the early 1990s and concluded on the basis of surface finds (mainly pottery) that, although the site seems to have been used in the medieval era, it was originally constructed in the Iron Age, perhaps around 1000-500 BC A similar enclosure stands on a rock outcrop high above the tombs at Jebel Buhays.