General description: The site has been identified by the Rough Cilicia Archaeological Survey Project some 6km north of the modern town of Gazipaşa
Number of kilns: 1
Typology: LRA1 "transitional type", 8th to 10th c.
Local fabric: Consistent, fine, reddish brown fabric (2.5 YR 6/4 to 6/6, light red) with numerous medium red speck and small white lime speck inclusions. The fabric is very hard and often appears overfired on the surface (2.5 YR 5/1) (Rauh et al. 2023)
Location: Not far from the Delice Creek. "This site is set back behind a line of dunes that frame the beach on the edge of the agricultural terrain directly behind (figs. 24-25). The mouth of the Delice River is actually several hundred meters south of the site" (Rauh et al. 2023)
Period of activity: It seems that the production centre was already active during the Roman times (Agora M239, 1st to 4th centuries), and activities were later resumed in the Early - Mid-Byzantine periods (8th to 10th centuries, ?)
Description of the facilities: "During the 1996 survey season, the team mapped a large walled enclosure with a ruined structure exhibiting in situ doorposts situated at the southern end of the complex. When the site was investigated in 1997, local farmers had exposed a clay pit directly behind the remains. Large lumps of fired clay and overfired fragments of Pinched Handle Agora M239 and Yassi Ada (LRA 1) amphoras were identified in and around the courtyard" (Rauh et al. 2023:20).
