[8] A salvage excavation was carried out at the site in 1991 by Shimon Riklin, on behalf of the Staff Officer for Archaeology of the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria.

[9] About 200 meters to the east of the ruins, in a quarry that was probably used to build the settlement's houses, a necropolis was found, where 18 burial caves with kokhim are visible, with a number of open-air trough tombs carved between them.

[7][10] The central tomb, which was part of a vast quarry and was hewn out of rock in the northern portion of a courtyard, attracted the bulk of scholarly interest.

A number of these tombs have architectural decorations, such as a quarry that simulates hewn smooth stones with chiseled edges or columns with Doric capitals.

[7] Magen postulated that the area's residents were Samaritan or pagans and that Jerusalemite artisans employed by the locals were responsible for giving the burial cave decorations their distinctively Jewish appearance.

[12][13] Raviv and other archeologists concluded that the Khirbet Kurkush necropolis, along with other similar sites in western Samaria, is to be associated with wealthy Jewish families who lived in the area during the late Second Temple Period.