There are caves to the north, and springs about a mile to the north-west. The village is surrounded with wells, and has a few olives on the west. It stands beside the main road to the north, near the junction with that from Shechem, and about 2 1/2 miles north of the road through Attil to the great plain. In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine described it: "Evidently an ancient site a moderate-sized village of mud and stone on a high mound at the edge of the plain. At the foot of the hill is a well, which probably is of ancient date." He further noted that Jatt had fourteen hundred inhabitants. In the courtyard of one house I found an old capital of white marble hollowed to serve as a mortar, and now used to grind coffee. In the midst of the small materials of which they are principally constructed I observed a certain number of cut stones of ancient date.
In 1870, Victor Guérin noted here: "Several ancient cisterns are scattered about on the rocky plateau upon which stands Jett. It paid a fixed tax of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues the taxes totalled 5,500 akçe. It had a population of 5 households, all Muslim. Jatt, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was located in the nahiya of Sara in the liwa of Lajjun. Īrcheological excavations have revealed major remains from the Byzantine and the Mamluk eras. A scarab, in bone, dating to the 1750–1550 BCE has also been found. Both local and imported pottery from this period has been found. Archaeologists excavations have yielded remains from Early Bronze Age and Middle Bronze Age.