Oura, Trachonas and Idalion

19/4The work is begun. The area to be excavated extends from a rock ledge in the west down to a sandy river bed in the east, to a total extent of c. 125 m. Next to the rock in the west the inhabitants have dug superficially. From this part a trench is begun in an eastward direction, the so-called Great Section. It is divided into metres and its northern side is marked A, its southern with B. At the 4th metre the section is crossed by a wall of large stones, and at the 5th by another of smaller ones, which lie from shoulder to shoulder. Just below the surface layer, at the 12th metre of the section, two statue bases come into view. They lie in a line in a SW-NE direction. The wall at the 5th metre is only a surface row of stones which are only one layer deep and rest in the earth, whereas the one at the 4th metre, which is probably multi- … continues