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At Riva, around the Chapel of Ste Irène, vast fields littered with sherds but none is earlier e than the period Hellenistic - On the section of the low cliff one notes a whole series of walls and floors - Everywhere lava and various pumice, presumably corresponding to one historical eruptions of Santorini.
In summary, to succeed in finding on the ground, the Cycladic ruins of the excavations of 1867-1870, one needs at once a great deal of time, a means of transport and, if possible, a good guide who would have been inherited from oral tradition the memory of the sites. However that may be, in our view, the conclusion of our visit to Santorini is that the island was erased from the map of inhabited islands between 1450 1400 and c. 800, the major eruption being the one which destroyed the Cretan palaces -
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