South of Kalba, and inland from the coast, lies the village of Awhala. This small settlement, which belongs to the emirate of Fujairah, sits on the north side of an east-west oriented wadi which empties out onto the Batinah plain of northern Oman. Situated on a terrace above the wadi is a mudbrick fortified house of nineteenth century date which covers the western corner of an Iron Age fortified enclosure. The enclosure wall is a massive 2.3 m in width, preserved in places to 1.4 m above the modern ground level. The enclosure wall is no longer extant on its southern side, where it has been eroded away by the wadi, but the north side is c. 60 m long and the east side is preserved to a length of over 50 m. An elaborate gateway was preserved near the northeast corner of the enclosure. Charcoal recovered in an excavation in the interior of a building within the enclosure wall gave a date of c. 800 BC The Iron Age fortified enclosure of Husn Awhala recalls a similar structure at Wadi Fizh in northern Oman, and the main walls have the same width as a stone wall excavated at Kalba.