Field Activities in 2008 and 2009

Kojtepa is constituted by a central quadrangular construction, 9.94 m high over the plain, and of a surrounding encircling wall, as well as from an external moat, currently covered by sharp vegetation. The site had already been numbered in the last years of the UsB survey as code PRC 147 (site no 282) and signalled for the find of numerous potsherds, and for its good state of conservation. Small towers have been, besides, signalled at the time of the survey too, around the fortress, similar to those of Kafir Kala, even though in a smaller scale. The first investigation at Kojtepa was, thus, aimed at singling out a stratigraphic sequence to be evidenced through the excavation of a large modern cut effected alongside the encircling wall of the tepe , which is thought to be regularized in order to constitute real archaeological sections, then denominated nos 1 and 2. In the section distributed in the topographic grid (PQ2, QQ1, QQ2, RQ1, RQ2), the presence of walls, of notable thickness, in bricks and blocks in raw that, probably had to belong both to the defensive system of the compound or to the re-utilisation of a later period.