Official Name: | Sakamkam |
Pushpin Map: | United Arab Emirates |
Coordinates: | 25.1736°N 56.3336°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United Arab Emirates |
Subdivision Type1: | Emirate |
Subdivision Name1: | Fujairah |
Elevation M: | 131 |
Elevation Ft: | 433 |
Sakamkam is a wadi and settlement in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates (UAE). Sakamkam Fort is located here.
The area is located some 7 km north of the city of Fujairah. Archaeological finds here have been particularly rich, with some 126 burials located, including oval, circular and the characteristic Wadi Suq period figure-of-eight burial. A number of Late Islamic period ceramics have also been found in the wadi, dating from the 15th-18th centuries.[1]
Surveys of the burials and settlement remains in the wadi started in the 1980s, by a Swiss team. Further surveys were requested in 2001 and 2002 by utility companies installing infrastructure[2] and were carried out by the Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey, ADIAS.[3]