MESSINIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER

For the purposes of our project, we selected seven neighboring houses in the higher western section of the settlement. The existing buildings in the section that we are interested in present different stages of ruin.
The northernmost house (No. 8), a shack on ground level, is completely destroyed. Chronologically, it cannot be dated, but was probably built before the intensive reconstruction that marked the villages of the Peloponnese immediately after their independence from the Turks.

The house in the NW (No. 7) is two-storied, to which a ground floor was attached later, along the length of the side of the slope. A "two-room" two-storied house in the NE (No. 9) can be dated to the second half of the 19th century. Between the previous two houses, there is a noteworthy pre-revolutionary house (No. 8). It is a semi two-storied house with small arched openings, actually two rooms, with a balcony and an interior oven.
The house in the NE (No. 11), the largest and the first to be built of the seven houses in the region of intervention, is purely two-storied, "two-room" with a light partition in the upper floor, an interior oven and twin semicircular domes, occupying approximately one-third of the ground plan level. It is dated approximately before or at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century.
The remaining two are half-ruined and their wooden structures have been entirely destroyed. The southernmost (No. a) is also two-storied with twin domes. The other (No. 10) is also semi two-storied, without any remarkable particularity. It has square proportions and is the newest house of the settlement.
The existing shells, which are to be preserved in the planning of the compound, have a total beneficial surface of ground and upper floors measuring 515.34 m2.
The building construction project will depend on the requirements of the use to which they will be put. The building spaces will be used as follows: