LADOCHORI - 2000

O.T. 58/03, plot II, P. Zoi-Sokoli and K. Sokoli property. Part of a building, with three adjoining rooms running north-south, continues west beyond the excavation plot (Figs 1-2). The walls were of flat stones bound with mortar and the room floors of beaten earth. To the south of the south wall was part of a paved surface or road with two building phases. Fourteen graves were found, oriented east-west with no goods (four enchytrismoi, eight tile graves of different forms and two cist graves). Finds include 315 worn bronze coins, 68 bronze items (mostly nails), 32 fragments of glass vessels, six bronze pins, 21 broken pottery vessels (mostly lamps), sherds of plain domestic pottery and three marble fragments (one from a table). These are mostly Early Christian in date, but include material from earlier construction phases.

O.T. 58/02, G. and S. Papavasileiou property. A room was defined by four walls of rubble and mortar, with an opening on the south side. Inside were sherds of large storage vessels with combed decoration, domestic pottery and a little tile.

O.T. 52/07, V. Stavropoulou property. A room was found with three walls of stone and mortar, as well as part of a paved surface and a conduit (Fig. 3). Finds are very few - mainly plainware sherds and small worn bronze coins.

O.T. 60, no. 17, Daflaki property. The first stages of excavation, 50m east of the Sokoli plot, revealed tiles, domestic pottery, stones, glass fragments and six coins. A water channel was also found (Fig. 4).

K. and I. Loli property. Sections of wall were found from two rooms; surface cleaning produced 34 bronze coins, a lamp with a cross motif, a few bronze attachments and sherds of vessels, lamps and glass vessels.