Site details

Molyvopyrgo

PK	C1681
TITLE	Molyvopyrgo
WGS84	40.27959° N, 23.404144° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	40.27959, 23.404144
LON/LAT	23.404144, 40.27959

DMS

40° 16' 46.524" N

23° 24' 14.9184" E

W3W	unclench, muddying, construction
UTM	34 T, 704387.55, 4461562.93
EGSA87	449197, 4458674

Elevation m	4
Elevation feet	13.1
Region	Macedonia
Subregion	Chalcidice

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Mound.   Leekley and Efstratiou [1980], 90    'The other, ..., is a prehistoric toumba which was excavated in 1928 by W.A. Heurtley, J.D.S. Pendlebury and C.A. Raleigh Radford of the British School.'
2.    Settlement.   Heurtley and Radford [1927], 160    'Period B: The Minyan occupation covered the whole area of the mound.'
3.    Sherds.   Simpson [1981], 184    'Mycenaean finds were claimed ... but no certainly Mycenaean sherds were found in the excavations ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 184, 'EB MB LB LH III?'
    b.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 90, 'Traces of Early Bronze Age mud-brick houses ... '

2. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 184, 'EB MB LB LH III?'
    b.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 90, ' ..., and Middle Bronze Age walls ... '

3. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 184, 'EB MB LB LH III?'
    b.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 90, 'There is only slight evidence of Late Bronze Age occupation, ... '

4. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 184, 'EB MB LB LH III?'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Heurtley and Radford [1927]: Heurtley, W.A. and C.A.R. Radford. ‘Two Prehistoric Sites in Chalcidice’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (29) 117-186. 1927/1928, 'II. Molyvópyrgo.', pg. 156. Online here.

2. Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: Leekley, Dorothy and Nicholas Efstratiou. Archaeological Excavations in Northern Greece. Noyes Press, Park Ridge, New Jersey. 1980, 'Molyvopyrgos (Chalcidice)', pg. 89.

3. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Molyvopyrgo', pg. 184. DH French, CM No. C 4
Online here.