¹ I am grateful for the continuing support of the Ephor of Antiquities for Central Macedonia, Dr Ioulia Vokotopoulou, and for the permission of the Ministry of Culture which have made this project possible. Financial support was again provided by the British Academy, Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Russell Trust, National Geographic Society of America, and the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge, in addition to the British School.

The excavation team was again made up of workmen from the village of Assiros, including some who have worked with us for many years, and supervisors and assistants from the University of Thessaloniki as well as British Universities. Without their hard work and enthusiasm the project could not have made such good progress. Special thanks are due to Graham Norrie (photographer), David Smyth (surveyor), Diana Wardle (potshed director) who have contributed illustrations to this report and Rayna Andrew (research assistant).

² Trench HF.

³ Trenches NC and NG/NH.

⁴ Trenches NB, NE/NF where no excavation had taken place in 1987.

⁵ Trench NA/HC. The destruction level of Phase 9 in this area was excavated by a separate team and recorded under the trench designation NA to avoid confusion.

⁶ Trench JO.

⁷ Trenches HD and HE.

⁸ Trench HB.

⁹ As mentioned in previous reports, the dates for each phase are notional, pending the fuller study of all relevant material. I have thought it better not to attempt any revision until the final report, though in the case of Phase 1 in particular it is likely that the two stages of building fall between 750 and 650 B.C.

¹⁰ Man. Andronikos Βεργίνα Ι: Το Νεϰροταφείον των τύμβων, Pithoi A3 (p. 11, fig. 1), N (p. 38) and Pl (p. 45).

¹¹ Ibid. 236–8. Here they are found in both male and female burials of 9th and 8th century date. Many burials have only a single button in contrast to the large numbers found in EI and EII or OI.

¹² BSA 82 (1987) 317.

¹³ BSA 83 (1988) 378 and note 14, pl. 57b.

¹⁴ Part of this had been excavated in 1977 during the excavation of trench NA/HC but was not recognised at that time since the southern boundary of the trench ran down the middle of the street.

¹⁵ Cf. BSA 75 (1980) 253, fig. 15 and BSA 83 (1988) 377, fig. 1.

¹⁶ BSA 83 (1988) 378.

¹⁷ As shown in the plans in A. Hochstetter, Kastanas: Die Kleinfunde abb. 20, 21, 23–25.

¹⁸ I am particularly grateful to Professor Hansel for the opportunity to read the ms of Kastanas: Die Grabung und der Baubefund (in press) where the details are fully illustrated.

¹⁹ Eg. the loomweights found fallen in Room 10 at Assiros, BSA 82 (1987) pl. 50c, and those plotted in A. Hochstetter Kastanas: Die Kleinfunde abb 21.

²⁰ ibid 90, abb. 16, and in squares W 43–45 in abb. 21.

²¹ A. Hochstetter, Kastanas: Die handgemachte Keramik 292. It should be emphasised that all the pots illustrated in BSA 75, figs. 16–18 are complete vessels from the destruction floors of Rooms 1–5 and all belong to a single building phase, Phase 2. Pending the full publication of the wheelmade pottery from Kastanas it is hard to judge the justification for the dates proposed for each building phase there. New information about Proto-Geometrie pottery from Torone and the region of Dion should assist precise dating.

²² Twisted handles are common on cut-away-neck jugs and have been assumed in recording to belong to that shape when there is no other indication.

²³ BSA 82 (1988) 380, pl. 58b, 59b & c.

²⁴ ibid fig. 2.

²⁵ BSA 75 (1980) 236.

²⁶ Deshayes J. Les Outils de Bronze de l'Indus au Danube 121, Type E, 1131 Lindos, 1132 Anthedon, 1133 Troy, 1134 Karphi.

²⁷ A. Hochstettcr, Kastanas: Die Kleinfunde, abb. 18 & 19.

²⁸ BSA 83 (1988) 385, pl. 57e.

²⁹ ibid 385.

³⁰ ibid 386, pl. 57f.

³¹ Sp. Iakovides proposed at a seminar held at Manchester University on 7 Fcb 1985 that the principal function of the fortress at Gla and the buildings within the circuit was as a granary for the drained area of the Lake Copais basin brought under cultivation during the 13th Century. Evidence for the storage of grain within the buildings was reported by him in PAE 1981, 94.