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Title: The medieval islet-fort of Sokastro, Karpathos
Start date: 300
End date: 699
Historical Period: Early Byzantine/Late Antique Period
Description: 

The small fortified islet of Sokastro is lying about a hundred metres north of Leukos bay. It preserves a great number of cisterns of different types, including three big communal cisterns, as well as houses and cellars; a small church and at least one pottery kiln and one iron furnace; a follis of c. 720 was also reported. The pottery scatter suggests that the fortified settlement had a major phase in the twelfth century, while the ceramic analysis indicates an eleventh-to thirteenth-century occupation period.

Place: Nisída Esókastro, Greece  
Languages: No linguistic content; Not applicable
Medium: rubble
Project: BYZART Project  
Fond: OUC Georgios Deligiannakis Archive  
Physical type: fortresses
cisterns (plumbing components)
Data provider: Open University of Cyprus  
License: All rights reserved
Rights holder: Open University of Cyprus  
Appears in Collections:BYZART

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