OVRYA - 2000

Ovrya, Messatis (Philothei settlement), 6 Athanasiou Diakou Street. M. Petropoulos (then Director, Στ' ΕΠΚΑ, now Director, ΛΘ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a rectangular vat from a press, with four steps inside and a rounded hollow in the base. This must belong to a farmstead yet to be located. The press as built in the early first century AD and destroyed in the second century. The vat was then re-used and walls built around it. Further Roman walls remain to be investigated.