Butrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by
the Butrint Foundation from 2002-2007. Lying just to the south of the
ancient port city of Butrint, these excavations have revealed a 1,300
year long story of a changing community that began in the 1st century
AD, one which not only played its part in shaping the city of Butrint
but also in how the city interacted and at times reacted to the changing
political, economic and cultural situations occurring across the
Mediterranean World over this period.
Volume II discusses the finds from the Vrina Plain excavations. This
volume provides an insight into how the Vrina Plain community lived,
worked and ultimately died and includes chapters on the medieval and
post-medieval ceramics from the excavations, analysis of the human and
faunal remains, environmental evidence, Roman and Medieval coins, a
detailed study of the small finds as well as a discussion of the glass
including a report on a number of glass cakes, ingots of raw glass
associated with glass working that were found during the excavations.
The volume also reports on five lead seals dating from the late 9th to
the 10th century, an uncommon find but one which when considered with
the contemporary coins suggests that for 100 years the Vrina Plain was
Butrint.
