LADOCHORI - 2005

Ladochori, Igoumenitsa (IKA property). G. Riginos (Η’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports that rescue excavation revealed part of a cemetery (which likely continues beneath the adjacent pavement and town square) in the vicinity of a known Late Roman-Early Christian settlement and bath. Six tombs were excavated – five tile graves and an enchytrismos. The tile graves were plastered on the outside and defined by rows of small unworked stoned; the deceased (one of which was a child) were laid supine, east-west, mostly without offerings (grave 3 contained two bronze coins by the feet and a small bronze ring by the cranium and grave four a bronze coin). The enchytrismos of an infant was in a pithos with a lid. Remains of walls were found in the southwest of the plot, with pottery and tile scattered across the entire area, with a mound of fieldstones, animal bones and pottery in the north. The small quantity of pottery recovered comprised plain domestic ware (mostly amphorae and chytres) plus some with combed decoration or red slip. A few fragments of glass vessels and plates, two glass ring-stones (one engraved with a male figure), small bronze and iron objects, and an intact terracotta conical loomweight were also found. Coins (one silver, one lead and 60 bronze) are mostly Late Roman or Early Christian, with some Hellenistic also.