SHILOH, now Seilûn.—To visit this interesting site costs 1/2 an hour's extra ride. We turn to the rt. below Sinjil, cross the little plain close on the N. side of Turmus ‘Aya, ascend the gentle rocky acclivity, pass the water shed, and have the ruins before us, only 25 min, from the mouth of Wady el-Jîb. We are disappointed. There is nothing here in either the ruins or the. scenery to attract notice. It is utterly featureless —naked rounded hills, paved with rocks and stones, from which the ruins can scarcely be distinguished. Mr. Stanley has well said that, “had it not been for the preservation of its name, and for the extreme precision with which its situation is described in the book of Judges, the spot could never have been identified; and indeed, from the time of Jerome till the year 1838, its real site was completely forgotten, and its name was transferred to that commanding height of Gibeon (Neby Samwîl), which a later age naturally conceived to be a more congenial spot for the sacred place where for so many centuries was ‘the tent which He had pitched among men :’— ...
Bædeker (1898) Route 22 page 250 (Seilûn)