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Neromilos: Viglitsa

PKC214
TITLENeromilos: Viglitsa
WGS84 37.004962° N, 21.865453° E
Accuracy 50 m.

LAT/LON 37.004962, 21.865453
LON/LAT 21.865453, 37.004962

DMS 37° 0' 17.8632" N,21° 51' 55.6308" E

W3Wconstructing, polkas, restricts
UTM34 S, 577000, 4095773
EGSA87 309927, 4097265

Elevation m233
Elevation feet 764.4
RegionMessenia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tholos

TYPE

1.    Mound.   Messenia I, 246    'A tholos tomb located ca. 50 m. east of and slightly below the Kalamata-Pylos highway ca. 1 1/2 km. west of Neromilo village...'
2.    Mound.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 153    'It almost certainly conceals a LH tholos tomb (and there are indications of a probable dromos facing W).'
3.    Mound.   Simpson [1981], 126    '..almost certainly concealing a Mycenaean tholos tomb ...'
4.    Tholos.   Messenia I, 246    'A tholos tomb located ca. 50 m. east of and slightly below the Kalamata-Pylos highway ca. 1 1/2 km. west of Neromilo village...'
5.    Tholos.   Zavadil [2012], 600    'Tholos?'
6.    Tholos.   Boyd [2001], 214    'Tholos mound 33m in diameter and 5m high.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 126, 'LH A', '...almost certainly concealing a Mycenaean tholos tomb ..'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 153, 'LH A'

2. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 126, 'LH A'
    b.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 153, 'LH A'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Boyd [2001]:  Boyd, Michael John. Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Mortuary Practices In The Southern And Western Peloponnese. 2001, 'Nerómilos Viglítsa.', pg. 214. Boyd reports what Simpson and McDonald report in Messenia I and then says 'I sought this mound in 1994 and could not locate it.'
Online here.

2.  Messenia I:  McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Habitation in Southwestern Peloponnese’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul., 1961), pp. 221-260., '71. Viglitsa (Neromilo)', pg. 246. Online here.

3.  Simpson [1981]:  Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'F 103 Neromilos: Viglitsa', pg. 126. Online here.

4.  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., 'D 101 Neromilos: Viglitsa', pg. 153. Online here.

5.  Zavadil [2012]:  Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'NEROMYLOS/VIGLITSA (EP. PYLIAS)', pg. 600. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C214 is at 36.98227° N, 21.92987° E, a straight-line distance of 6 km and 260 m.