Late Roman D Ware Production Site. The site occupies the upper slopes of a low hill around which the Küçükaksu river bends on its east and south sides. Its terraces are completely covered by bushes and narrow wheat fields which are littered with pottery production debris.
This is one of seven LRDW production sites that has been identified in this area. The production sites themselves are relatively small and suggest a series of workshops operating as part of a larger economic unit. Such modes of production forming nucleated industries are typical of the countryside in the later Roman world, and it is a useful case-study of fine ware being produced not in giant kilns as in some earlier periods elsewhere, but rather as part of nu...