Toward the interior of the peninsula one finds the picturesque cove of Prapratno, enclosed by clear water and a pebble beach facing the island of Mljet. In front of it on a hill are the ruins of the small church of St Srđ. This 14th century settlement completely died out due to its vulnerability to dangers of the sea. However, the settlements of Česvinica and Kuti survived exclusively through agriculture during times when the living resources of Ston and other villages were exhausted. Above this oval valley on the hill of Porače hides the cove of Gudnja, rich in layers of prehistoric culture. The oldest fragments of so-called ampresso ceramics were found here on this coast, dating to the 7th millennium B.C. The local coloured ceramics produced during the Neolitic Age show a connection to similar ones from Greece and southern Italy, and also from Herzegovina and Bosnia. This shows that these old inhabitans of the peninsula exchanged goods with distant maritime and continental centres. These people also had their own rites as is evident from a clay female figure, the only one of its vintage on this Adriatic coast.