The Cape of Stillo site near by the ancient site of Butrint comprises an incomplete rectangular stone-built enclosure situated around the rim of a pronounced knoll at Shën Koll’s (St. Nicholas) hillside. Several sections of wall, built of rough limestone blocks, survive to a height of up to 1.50 m. In the 2006 season a number of small trenches in the interior adjacent to the southern wall were opened. Also one trench was sited within a potential structure and a second in proximity to a possible gate. Along with two ceramic beads and a flint hammer-stone, the excavations produced a quite remarkable assemblage of several thousand pottery shreds, some of which confirmed Bronze and Iron Age settlement of the site. The site may have possessed a dual function, serving both as a secure base or refuge for pastoralists and their flocks and perhaps as a watch-station or signalling point to Bronze Age Butrint, Kalivo and Corfu.

The enclosure at Shën Koll (St. Nicholas) on the Cape of Stillo headland was selected for further small-scale excavations, in the summer of 2007. Shën Koll comprises a large rectangular enclosure consisting of the remains of low rough-built walls interspersed with natural rock formations. One trench was dug inside the enclosure and a further six on natural terraces on the southwestern slopes below the enclosure. The stratigraphy encountered was typically limited to thin topsoil above undifferentiated rendzina soils between 0,30-0,50m deep overlying bedrock. The majority of trenches produced ceramics, along with a few lithics, and although the deposits appeared to be secondary, eroded contexts, some stratification of both deposits and ceramics was evident. Most importantly, diagnostic sherds of both Bronze Age and Iron Age date were recovered that will be beneficial in defining the site’s chronology In the hilltop trench a stone line pit was excavated, and alongside ceramic spindle whorls, beads and flint scrapers found at Shën Koll during the season of excavation in 2006, suggest manufacture at the site. A small assemblage of faunal remains revealed the presence of dogs and consumption of domesticated cattle and sheep/goats with only a single specimen of wild food (boar).