Kalavasos-Kopetra: Department of Antiquities test trenching, plot 260

Test trenching in 2008 at plot 260 exposed the western limit of the Early Christian settlement at Kalavasos-Kopetra, under Chrysanthi Kounnou of the Department of Antiquities¹. Walls standing directly on bedrock, 0.20 to 0.25 m below the surface, enclosed small, irregular rooms with floors of rectangular limestone slabs; the report records varying floor levels and workmanship, repaving and at least one room extension¹. Roof tiles, sherds of cooking pots and storage vessels, a loom weight and ground stone tools were recovered¹. The Department's annual report for 2008 reads the collapsed roofs and walls as extensive damage from Arab raids and links that damage to the abandonment of the settlement¹.