Polemidhia: Department rescue tombs, 1952–1960

The Department of Antiquities excavated two tombs at Polemidhia, eight years apart. In 1952 it excavated a Roman-period tomb that had been discovered accidentally; the annual report mentions glass, lamps and coins, and associates coins of Augustus? and Trajan with Polemidhia¹. Megaw reports that its contents were placed in the Limassol Museum¹. In 1960 the Department excavated a tomb at Skasmata. Dikaios dates it to the end of the Cypro-Classical II period; its second chamber had five tunnel-shaped niches, one of them holding the remains of an incinerated human body, and finds included a Plain White VII amphora and an amphora of "Stroke-polished" II (VII) ware².