Site details

Leros: Ayia Marina: Kastro

PK	C1414
TITLE	Leros: Ayia Marina: Kastro
WGS84	37.15715° N, 26.857953° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	37.15715, 26.857953
LON/LAT	26.857953, 37.15715

DMS

37° 9' 25.74" N

26° 51' 28.6308" E

W3W	refuse, tiny, players
UTM	35 S, 487387, 4112315
EGSA87	753646, 4115843

Elevation m	144
Elevation feet	472.4
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Leros

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Bean and Cook [1957], 135
2.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 202    'Several Mycenaean sherds were found on the upper northwest slopes, outside the castle walls, ...'

SITE SIZE

- Simpson [1981]  p. 202,  Size: 9600 sq. m.  '..over an area about 120 m. north to south by 80 m.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 202, 'MB? LH III(A-B) LH IIIC? A C H'

2. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 202, 'MB? LH III(A-B) LH IIIC? A C H'

3. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 202, 'MB? LH III(A-B) LH IIIC? A C H'
    b.    Bean and Cook [1957]: 135,

4. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 202, 'MB? LH III(A-B) LH IIIC? A C H'
    b.    Bean and Cook [1957]: 135,

5. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Bean and Cook [1957]: 135,

NOTE

1. Additional bibliography about the Carian coast:

Bean, George Ewart and J.M. Cook, 'The Cnidia' (BSA (47), pp. 171-212. 1952) which is online here
Bean, George Ewart with J.M. Cook and W.H.P., 'The Halicarnassus Peninsula' (BSA (50), pp. 85-171. 1955) which is online here.
Bean, George Ewart 'Notes and Inscriptions from Caunus', Journal of Hellenic Studies (73), pp. 10-35 (1953) which is online here.
Fraser, Peter Marshall and Bean, George Ewart, The Rhodian Peraea and Islands. Oxford Classical and Philosophical Monographs. 1954. ISBN: 9780198147022

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Bean and Cook [1957]: Bean, G. E. and J. M. Cook. ‘The Carian Coast III’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (52), pp. 58-146. 1957., '', pg. 135. Online here.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Ayia Marina: Kastro', pg. 202. Online here.