As a result, major questions regarding the nature and chronology of the fortification were investigated and the excavation was completed.

Further excavation to the south of the tower, in what may be considered as the interior of the walled area, yielded no finds, possibly also because of serious disturbances by modern activities. The tower was revealed on the three sides (north, south and west) as the south side, joining the circuit wall, was already revealed in previous excavation seasons.

It was constructed directly on bedrock and was built of rectangular slabs placed horizontally on a lower course of large unworked stones. The outer face was dressed with rectangular ashlars also placed horizontally and carefully worked cornerstones. Many of the ashlars are missing indicating stone looting over the ages. The tower, although not tying with the circuit wall, was of the same construction as the circuit wall. It measures 15 x 7.5 m and is preserved to a maximum of six courses of stones with a maximum preserved height up to 2 m.

The circuit wall is preserved to a height of maximum 1.5 m. The staircase of ashlars and adjoining stone platform giving access to the tower were revealed in previous years and so were a series of parallel channels from east to west, possibly for water drainage.

Further investigation on the northeast side clarified the nature of the circuit wall and the construction method as well as its relation to the wall of irregular stones on the interior of the circuit wall. It ran parallel to the circuit wall and seems to have been an older phase. This wall fell into disuse and its stones were reused to build the circuit wall connected to the tower.

The space between this wall and the exterior circuit wall, the later phase was filled with a thick layer of almost completely sterile sandy fill, obviously homogeneous and the result of a single action. The old wall was demolished at one point, where a foundation deposit between the two walls was found, enclosed within upstanding stones, secured between the old and the new phase of the wall. In the same sandy fill five intact vessels were found – a Red Slip lagynos, a skyphos with raised handles and dark slip, a small bowl with incurving rim and a dark slip and two Megarian bowls with impressed decoration, all of Hellenistic date.

It was thus obvious, that the old wall was demolished and a new wall and tower was built in its place, in the Hellenistic period, a completely new piece of information that revokes what was hitherto believed, namely that the ashlar tower dated to the Late Bronze Age, on the basis of surface finds.