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Mesiani Magoula

PKC1325
TITLEMesiani Magoula
WGS84 39.650243° N, 22.489797° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 39.650243, 22.489797
LON/LAT 22.489797, 39.650243

DMS 39° 39' 0.8748" N,22° 29' 23.2692" E

W3Whinted, agreeing, create
UTM34 S, 627818, 4389999
EGSA87 370282, 4389742

Elevation m69
Elevation feet 226.4
RegionPelasgiotis





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Sherds

TYPE

1.    Barrow.   Wace and Thompson [1912], 55    ' ..., clearly falls into the class of barrows which are common in the eastern Thessalian plain.'
2.    Pottery.   Wace and Thompson [1912], 55    ' ... the fields immediately round the base of the hillock are strewn with prehistoric pottery, ... '
3.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 166    '..but some Bronze Age was also found, and there are Mycenaean sherds from here in the National Museum at Athens.'
4.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 281    ' ..., but some BA was also found, and there are LH sherds from here in the National Museum at Athens.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Prehistoric: (4000 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Wace and Thompson [1912]: 55, ' [Tsundas] concluded that the conical mound was erected in prehistoric times ... '

2. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 166, 'N EB MH LH'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 281, ' ..., but some BA was also found, ... ', ' ... EB MH ... '

3. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 166, 'N EB MH LH'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 281, ' ..., but some BA was also found, ... ', ' ... MH ... '

4. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 166, 'N EB MH LH'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 281, ' ... and there are LH sherds from here in the National Museum at Athens.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'H 19 Mesiani Magoula', pg. 166. Online here.

2.  Simpson and Dickinson [1979]:  Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'H 21 Mesiani Magoula', pg. 281. Online here.

3.  Wace and Thompson [1912]:  Wace, Alan John Bayard and Maurice Scott Thompson. Prehistoric Thessaly; Being Some Account of Recent Excavations and Explorations in North-Eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the Borders of Macedonia. . Cambridge at the University Press, 1912., '26. Mesiani Magoula (Μεσιανὴ Μαγούλα)', pg. 8. And pp. 55-6.
Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C1325 is at 39.86702° N, 22.73852° E, a straight-line distance of 32 km and 177 m.