SKALA OROPOU - 2009

Skala Oropou. Excavation continued of the oval buildings ΛΔ and ΛΕ (Figs. 1-2). An infant burial within a handmade Late Geometric prochous was placed horizontally, mouth to the south. Building ΛΕ was 9.5m long x 5.5m wide, with successive floors and pottery of the end of the eighth century, loomweights, spindle-whorls and beads. A wall 14.5m long east of the excavation is considered to be a peribolos contemporary with building Στ and older than building ΛΕ. The oval building ΛΔ (above ΛΕ) dates to the transition between the Geometric and Archaic periods. The west wall of the two oval buildings served to protect them from flooding. An Archaic drainage channel adjacent to the east removed rain-water. A foundation deposit associated with the construction of this channel contained a small seventh century libation vessel.