AGIOS VASILEIOS - 2011

Agios Vasileios (Xerokampi). A. Vasilogamvrou (ASA) reports that continuing excavation of Building A revealed evidence of alterations to the building, a fire destruction and reoccupation at the end of the Late Helladic period, and incursions in the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine periods.

The Post-Byzantine Building Γ was constructed over Building A. One room contained many antiquities – vessels, a bronze knife, faience beads, gold sheets, three sealstones with scenes, a large stone hammer, animal figurines, and a large bull-head rhyton (Fig. 1).

New buildings were discovered in geophysical survey. Excavation revealed part of a large building (Δ) with three rooms (two narrow and the third as large as the other two together and with a threshold) (Fig. 2). The pottery discovered dates to LH II-IIIA. The walls were 1.5m thick, strengthened with wooden beams, and probably supported an upper storey. The area was abandoned after the end of the Mycenaean period, and re-used only in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine times. Next to Building Δ, to the west, was a further complex (E) of small rooms of about the same dimensions, built of unworked stones and brick, and dating to LH IIA/B – LH IIIA1/2.