MARGARITI - 2000

Margariti (irrigation of the Margariti plain). G. Riginos reports the discovery of seven pottery kilns.

The oval kiln K2 is preserved to the height of the eschara. K3 (also oval) is built of clay and mud-brick, and preserves the firing chamber with an oblong column in the middle. Inside the rectangular K4 was a small iron knife. The firing chamber of K7, built of mud-brick and coated with clay inside, is divided by a pair of small mud-brick walls. The large number of kilns in the area indicates an organized workshop which, according to local inhabitants, functioned until the late Ottoman period.