Episkopi-Pampoula: Department salvage excavations, 2009

In 2009 the Department of Antiquities held trial excavations in three plots at Episkopi-Pampoula, under the Archaeological Officer Efthymia Alphas¹. In one plot two unlooted rock-cut tombs were excavated. Tomb 66 held 46 objects dated to the Cypro-Archaic period, many pottery sherds and very few skeletal fragments; Tomb 71 held the remains of at least 27 individuals, 116 objects and many sherds¹. The rest of that plot contained looted tombs, numerous rectangular and square cuttings in the bedrock, and fragmentary Late Bronze Age remains, including a gaming stone¹. Test trenches in another part of Pampoula hill exposed architectural remains and pottery dated from the Late Bronze Age to the Roman period¹.