
Tholos tomb of Vasiliko

The tholos tomb located at Xerovrisi, approximately 1.5 km southeast of the modern village “Vasiliko” was excavated by the Swedish archaeologist Mattias Natan Valmin . The tomb was found looted and consists of a dromos (passageway), a stomion (entranceway) and a burial chamber with a large pit in the floor without any findings and a niche on the eastern wall of the dome containing disordered bones. Based on the ceramic finds, it appears that the tomb was in use from the 15th to the 13th century BC and is likely associated with an adjacent Mycenaean settlement. Additionally, there are traces of ancestral worship ceremonies up to the classical or Hellenistic periods.