Tell Barri, northeastern Syria, from the west; this is 32 meters ( feet) high, and its base covers 37 hectares (91 acres) Tel Be'er Sheva, Beersheva, Israel In archaeology, a tell[a] (from Arabic: تَلّ, tall 'mound, small hill') [1] is an artificial topographical feature, a mound [b] consisting of the accumulated and stratified debris of a succession of consecutive settlements at the.