This is a coastal area extending immediately southwards of Site 1. Aerial photography has clearly shown man-made structures in the shallows near the beach. In the immediate vicinity north of these structures, in deeper waters, the side scan sonar has detected a number of abnormalities on the seabed showing elongated contours running parallel to the cape. There is also a line of structures parallel to the coast. The depth varies from 1 m to 5 m. During our 5th and 6th campaigns, two trenches were dug in the sand under the stilt on which the Chatby Casino stands. Numerous pottery sherds, most dating to the Late Roman times, as well as small broken pieces of marble and granite, were recovered. The excavation will be resumed in the future, in order to establish if, as it is believed, the Casino stands on the ruins of the Martyrium of St. Mark, a revered monument of the 4th century AD.
dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."