This picture I took to show some of the surrounding country. There wsas a notice indicating it was known what was in the ground:

Aristocratic residence
Within the total stratification of the Troia mound, the sequence of layers that make up Troia II occupies a depth of roughly three metres. Within this, excavations have identified eight distinct building-phases, each defined by alterations in the fortifications system and/or of the buildings in the citadel interior. The most important of these phases are Troia IIc and Troia IIg – the “burnt city” in which Schliemann found, among other items, the famous “Priam’s Treasure”.

Most architectural remains now visible here derive from Troia IIc. They include a row of three parallel long-houses with porches, the so-called “megaron” houses. The largest of these is megaron Iia, measuring c. 30 x 14 metres. In plan it can be regarded as a possible prototype of the Greek temple. The entire citadel of Troia II has a highly prestigious character and must have been the seat of either a palace or an aristocratic residence. Probably it also had a cultic function. To this citadel belonged a lower town, whose existence has been demonstrated in the recent excavations. It consists of buildings which would conventionally have been dated to the Late Troia I period, but which now appear to be contemporary with Troia II. In the Troia II citadel probably lived an “upper class” with aristocratic characteristics – an “upper class” in both senses of the term. In the lower settlement probably lived the simple folk.

The finds point to the exceptional significance of the citadel. The so-called treasures are evidence not only of what was, for this period, immense wealth, but also of an astonishing level of craftsmanship. Troia is one of the earliest places in the world where it can be shown that tin was used for the production of bronze. Here for the first time in the Aegean area the fast spinning wheel was used for making pottery. Raw materials such as tin or the semi-precious stone lapis lazuli must have been brought to Troia across very long trade-routes. Such contacts underline the importance of this settlement in the Early Bronze Age.