A team from The Foundation for Calabrian Archaeology and the University of Kentucky led by Dr. Paolo Visonà has recently located a series of Greek fortifications on the mountains in the hinterland of ancient Locri Epizephyrii (please see details in last chapter of an essay to appear in Notizie degli Scavi this summer or fall). The most promising of nearly a half a dozen sites includes what may be a frontier sanctuary (a rectangular [?] building covering an area of c. 900 square meters) and a large fort (?) ringed by a massive wall circuit. The latter has been surveyed preliminarily in June 2015; it covers an area of c. 2000 square meters. Surface finds include Greek rooftile and bronze arrowheads. The presumed sanctuary has yielded diagnostic Greek pottery datable to the classical and Hellenistic periods, roof tiles, and prehistoric lithic tools; all are surface finds.

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