AGRINION - 2005

Agrinion, Genova. M. Stavropoulou-Gatsi (Director emerita, ΛΣτ’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on excavation at two sites.

On Patriarchou Kallinikou B’ Street (property of D. Kaklopoulou), a potter’s kiln and two buildings were discovered during excavation for the construction of a house. The kiln is an oval structure (4.5m long), preserving the stoking tunnel and furnace chamber: the chamber walls were of burnt reddish clay, lined on the interior face with well-fired grey clay. Two of the probable three columnar supports for the eschara were preserved in the chamber, but neither the eschara nor the firing chamber survive. Remains of carbonized wood were found at the west (exterior) end of the stoking tunnel. In view of the large quantity of rectangular bricks found in the chamber, it is likely that the kiln was used to fire bricks. The chamber also produced many tripod supports, three conical loomweights and a very few sherds (while these do not assist in dating the kiln precisely, it is probably Roman).

To the east of the kiln were two rectangular adjunct structures in a row (maximum internal dimensions 2.45 x 0.8m), with sloping floors and walls of fired clay.

The opening of a public road revealed poorly preserved parts of a domestic textile workshop. Investigation of an area of 40m² exposed an extensive destruction layer containing Corinthian pan tiles and Lakonian cover tiles: beneath lay the foundations of two small rooms, built in local grey sandstone. Pyramidal terracotta loomweights and one spindle whorl were recovered both insider and outside these structures.