GREECE PELOPONNESE ARCADIA STENO

Remains of the Early and Middle Neolithic periods (6500-5300 BC) are known from the area of Steno, east of Tripolis. In the 1980s, four metallurgic kilns, washeries and installations for processing, melting and working metal ore were uncovered at Steno and nearby Agiorgitika. They are signposted as "Prehistoric Metal Work Kilns". The facilities are dated to the Middle Bronze Age (ca. 1700 BC), but apparently have been re-used in the late Roman period (ca. 400 AD), probably to remelt the old metal waste.

The site - which is definitely not one of the major tourist attractions in Arcadia (or to put it more clearly: there is nobody ever around) - has several protective covers and is fenced and locked, and when visited in 2007 appeared a little neglected. - When re-visiting the site in September 2019 nothing much (if anything) had changed. The site is still fenced, unaccessible and definitely neglected.