LAVRION - ARY - 2006

Lavrion - Ary, ore enrichment complex. K.G. Tsaimou (ΕΜΠ) reports on further investigation of the Lavreotiki washeries. Four circular, marble water channels (Ary I, II, III, IV) were surveyed and mapped.

Ary III: a circular water channel and a large (10.6 x 7m) Π-shaped, type 1 level washery to the west of it were excavated. The deepest elements of the washery (drains and basins) were filled with stones. The drain walls preserve hydraulic cement applied over a layer of stones set in soil. Two square basins project from the rectangular washery. A small, conical stone column to the north of the washery has a rectangular groove possibly for the insertion of a wooden support.

Immediately to the east of the washery lay space Γ (unexcavated). To the west, a 5m-long courtyard (Δ) was delimited on the west side by a wall of large unworked limestone blocks which extends to the north. Within the courtyard, adjacent to the wall, were a small mortar-lined cistern with a drain opening in the rim, and a semi-circular groove. Only coarse pottery was found in the courtyard.

The marble water channel was bisected by a modern east-west road related to 19^th-century mining activity.