BYZANTINE DISCOVERIES AT SERVIA IN WESTERN MACEDONIA
During the 11th Century AD, when the town of Servia was an important local stronghold, the crossing of the Haliakmon river remained important. The prehistoric site was used in some way at this period, since large bottle-shaped pits were sunk into it, reaching the natural subsoil 3.5 m below ground level. Mediaeval pottery was rare but two of the pits contained burials - or rather bodies - which seemed to have been thrown into them without ceremony.
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Two mediaeval pits 1.5 in diameter and over 3m deep cutting into the Neolithic levels |
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The 'burial' of a woman whose body seems simply to have been thrown into the bottom of the pit. She was still wearing her earrings, one of bronze and one of iron. |
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Early Neolithic Middle Neolithic Late Neolithic Early Bronze Age Index