ASTERIA - 2000

Asteria. Excavations at the northern part of the Pounda peninsula on the western side of Asteria hill uncovered an irregular peribolos surrounding an area with small walls and Early Helladic pottery, obsidian blades and chips, stone tools, shell and a little bone. On the main beach of Asteria was a well-built peribolos wall of the end of the third to the early second millennium BC. Breaching the wall in several places were 34 Late Roman tombs, including 23 tile graves, three cist graves, a pit burial and two enchytrismoi; pottery dated from the fourth to the sixth century AD, with a little glass and some bronze coins (Figs. 1-3).