Acknowledgements. We would like to express our warm thanks to: the first Byzantine Ephoria of Athens; Mr I. Kakouris of the Ministry of Culture; Helen Dori, Nikolas Gioles, and Ch. Constantinidi of the Byzantine section of the Dept. of Archaeology at the University of Athens; the British School at Athens and its Director, H. W. Catling; and to the Excavation Sub-Committee of the British School at Athens who provided the funding for the field-work in 1986.

The material presented in this article is the result of work conducted at Paliochora in the summer and the autumn of 1985 and the summer of 1986.

T. Koukoulis and G. E. Ince are responsible for the archaeological interpretation of the survey; D. Smyth for the surface survey, assisted by T. Koukoulis and G. E. Ince, and the two maps which accompany this article.

All the dimensions given in this article are the internal dimensions of the buildings described.

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