This season started on May 10 and lasted until the July  02, 2021. It aimed at clarifying the plan of the architectural remains where, in previous years, a complex of workshops was uncovered, by attempting to establish the extent and plan of the buildings, as far as possible.

As reported in previous years, the project included a survey for the re-appraisal of earlier surveys and the location of possible new sites of the Late Bronze Age in the region of Agios Sozomenos. The survey was followed by excavation of the forts at Barsak and Nikolides in order to understand the relationship between them on one hand, as well as with the complex of workshops excavated at the foot of Barsak at the locality Djirpoulos and the storage building located on a small hill at Ampelia, which oversees the workshop complex, on the other. With this final season the project came to a close.

The 2021 excavation at the workshop complex focused on the western side, first to establish its extent and, secondly, to investigate whether it was continuous or consisted of separate units. Thick layers of earth, probably decomposing mudbricks, and a thick layer of a mixture of earth mixed with plaster, possibly the collapse of the roof, were removed throughout to reveal the wall foundations of the complex.

As already confirmed in previous seasons, there were two phases in the lifespan of the complex and the later phase was heavily compromised by a destruction. As in the SE part of the complex, some of the older walls were reutilised and the rooms were generally enlarged in the later phase. The earlier conclusion that the complex extended further to the south, in what is now the riverbed of Alykos was further confirmed and, this year’s excavation also confirmed that the building extended to the NW, indicating an extensive settlement.