CORFU - VATOS - 2000

Vatos, Kellia (property of M. Sneijders). G. Metallinou (Η' ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavation at the southwestern edges of the settlement.

A total of 282 sherds and 135 lithic artefacts were recovered, mainly from a surface layer 0.3−0.63m deep. The pottery was characterized by grey cores and grey-brown surfaces: the more diagnostic sherds had plastic decoration (rope, diagonal groove and finger impressed) of Dakaris’ category II, as is common throughout the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age in Epirus, the Ionian islands and Illyria. Lithic artefacts included high-quality tools of grey flint. No architectural remains were found. The limited quantity and extent of the prehistoric finds indicate the existence of a Bronze Age site on the southwestern slopes of Mount Ag. Georgios, possibly at a location higher than the site of Ermones.