Modern Description:
South-southeast of Molos and a little to the north of a raised area called Prosilia or Agrosikia (340 m asl), there is a place between the rivers Potamia and Aivlassorema called Trochala with an ancient settlement that covers an area of some 1700 metres northwest-southeast and 35 hectares. Our survey found here abundant Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Early Byzantine pottery and numerous fragments of tiles. There is no evidence, however, of Bronze Age pottery. The position of Scarpheia, an important polis, second only to Thronium in the whole of Epicnemidian Locris, in Trochala in Agios Charalambos, at the exit of the Potamia valley, fits Strabo’s description well On the basis of the evidence available to us at present, Scarpheia was founded in the Archaic Period. Towards the end of the Roman period and the beginning of the Byzantine, Scarpheia was gradually abandoned and the population moved to the coastal plain. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarphe Wikidata ID: Q3475188 Trismegistos Geo: 41349 Manto: 9688223 DARE: 23301
Info: Epicnemidian Locris Project 2017
Jose Pascual and Maria-Foteini Papakonstantinou, Epicnemidian Locris Project FINAL REPORT, https://www.icca.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Epicnemidian_Locris.pdf
