The most striking feature of the Medieval-Modern periods in the Atsas Valley consists of Lemonas village, the remains of a seasonal settlement from the late Ottoman and Modern periods (TP209).
TP209 Evrykhou Tanayies
The characteristic activities in and around the village were clearly the ploughing, planting, harvesting and threshing of the seasonal agricultural cycle. The survey transect shows a gradual fall-off both north and south, giving a clear 'halo' from manuring and dumping of about 500m from north to south. The main area cultivated was apparently limited to the alluvial terrace, which shows up clearly on the aerial photograph.
Other than round Lemonas there is virtually no medieval-modern pottery in the Atsas area (.mov panorama). In the north-west there is a different type of evidence for medieval-modern activity in the form of two water mills on the Ayia Saranta stream, a tributary of the River Atsas (BU0053; BU0059). Although they are in the Atsas drainage, they are very close to another series of mills between Katydhata and Linou, the nearest of which is 680m further south-west up the drainage. The grain to feed them is more likely to come from the thickly settled and intensively cultivated Karkotis Valley, rather than the very sparsely occupied Atsas Valley.