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Romanou: Golf Course: Tholos

PK	C435
TITLE	Romanou: Golf Course: Tholos
WGS84	36.995184° N, 21.661071° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	36.995184, 21.661071
LON/LAT	21.661071, 36.995184

DMS

36° 59' 42.6624" N

21° 39' 39.8556" E

W3W	steady, hushing, onto
UTM	34 S, 558824, 4094542
EGSA87	291712, 4096607

Elevation m	17
Elevation feet	55.8
Region	Messenia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Tholos

TYPE

1.    Tholos.   Zavadil [2012], 554    'In der Nähe des Abschlages für das 16. Loch fand man im Jahr 2008 ein antik beraubtes frühmykenisches Tholosgrab, dessen Kuppel eingestürzt war.'
2.    Tholos.   Rambach [2012],     included horses skulls laid on the deceased.
3.    Tholos.   BCH Online, 2571    'In the southwest of the plot was a damaged and looted Mycenaean tholos tomb...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic I: (1700 BC - 1635 BC)
    a.    Zavadil [2012]: 554, 'Die im Grab gefundene Keramik erlaubt eine Datierung der Errichtung der Anlage in SH I.'
    b.    Rambach [2012]: , 'This is a very early vaulted tomb with a very short orifice-corridor and sealed the entrance with stones. Its use should have started, according to the evrimata- in LH I period, around 1600/1550 BC (fig. 12).'
    c.    BCH Online: 2571, 'The construction of the tholos, its short dromos, and the surviving pottery indicate an LH I date'

NOTE

1. On sixteenth green of the new Romanou Golf Course

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. BCH Online: Archaeology in Greece Online/Chronique des fouilles en ligne, '', no. 2571. Online here. Online here.

2. Rambach [2012]: Rambach, Jörg. . , '', Online here.

3. Zavadil [2012]: Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'ROMANOS (EP. PYLIAS)', pg. 554. Online here.