The excavations of 2006 on the Vrina Plain were located on the remains of a Roman house complex, occupied in the later periods by a Christian basilica and early medieval productive and habitation structures.
The earliest phase of activity was represented by the robbed remains of a rectangular structure that may have been a small farm building associated with the Roman colonial settlement established in the Augustan period. Over time, this building was superseded by a number of other structures on a much grander scale, culminating in the late 1st century AD with the construction of a substantial villa complex. The complex was a private residential area consisting of a courtyard enclosed by the rooms of the villa, later replaced by a colonnaded portico. There was also a reception area for guests who may have come by boat. The remains of a mosaic pavement were discovered in the eastern portico, which is believed to date from the 2nd century AD. A small furnace was found along with a number of cakes or ingots of green, blue, yellow and purple colored glass in one of the rooms off the courtyard that may have been used to manufacture tesserae for wall mosaics. In the 4th century the form of the villa was altered again and an aisled extension was built southwards into the courtyard and over the eastern end of the pool. The aisled structure was later appropriated for use as a Christian church with the laying of mosaic pavements in the newly-defined nave and bema.