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The pseudo-isodomic walls of the fortified settlement on the hilltop with a total perimeter of 670 m and width around 3 m are preserved in good condition in southern and southeastern side, while on the other sides have extensive damage. Three gates are visible on the fortification, one on the south side of the hill, where the best preserved section of the wall, one on the west side oriented to the sea and one on the east side towards the plain. Inside the fortified citadel are preserved foundations of buildings, scattered architectural members, wells and drainage channels cut into the rock.

A few meters below, northeast of the fortified settlement, the archaeological research has revealed a building (13,50 x 9,50 m), which consists of a small central room, around which there are four oblong wings and was used from late archaic up to hellenistic period. The position of the building outside the city walls, its type of masonry and architecture as well as the rich finds from its destruction layer, attest its religious character.

The cemetery of the settlement is situated at the northeastern part of the hill. Twenty one cist graves -arranged mainly in two large groups- were excavated. The ceramic finds date the cemetery in the Late Archaic - Early Classical era, a period that seems to be consistent with the period of use of a fortified settlement.

In the plain on foot of the hill, almost next to the modern mouth of the River Kalamas a Roman villa was revealed, measuring 23 x 16 m. The villa was built in the second half of the 2nd century BC and it appears that it survived till the middle of the 3rd century AD. It consists of a central outdoor courtyard adjacent to large storerooms and workshops, such as a kitchen with a central rectangular hearth, and official rooms with mosaic or tiled floors.
Author
Lazou Theodora, Historian - Archaeologist
Tzortaztou Antonia, Archaeologist