Hayl is the name given to an abandoned village in the Wadi al-Hayl about 13 kms east of Kalba in the emirate of Fujairah. Located in a mountainous location, Hayl is a site which consists of numerous different buildings and features scattered about the sides and terraces of the main wadi and its tributaries. A small fort or husn perched on an isolated rock outcrop has been carbon dated to between 1470 and 1700 AD Its loopholes and firing slots show that it was intended as a defensive lookout position. Hundreds of petroglyphs, or pictures engraved (usually by pecking) on stone, litter the terraces on either side of the wadi. Many of these depict animals, some isolated anthropomorphic figures, and still others horses and riders. Judging by similarities between the figures depicted at Hayl and those found on seals and pendants from sites such as Tell Abraq, it seems certain that the oldest of the Hayl petroglyphs must date back into the early 1st or 2nd millennium BC