Pila: Vigles: Burial Mound
| PK | C448 |
| TITLE | Pila: Vigles: Burial Mound |
| WGS84 | 36.948848° N, 21.721841° E |
| Accuracy | 20 m. |
| LAT/LON | 36.948848, 21.721841 |
| LON/LAT | 21.721841, 36.948848 |
| DMS | 36° 56' 55.8528" N | , | 21° 43' 18.6276" E |
| W3W | copiers, fitter, filings |
| UTM | 34 S, 564270, 4089441 |
| EGSA87 | 296998, 4091335 |
| Elevation m | 101 |
| Elevation feet | 331.4 |
| Region | Messenia |
GENERAL SITE TYPE Mound
TYPE
1. Mound. Messenia III, 149 'A knoll along the same ridge at a point only about 120 m. W-NW of the Vigles site is almost certainly a burial mound of characteristic local MH type.'2. Mound. Boyd [2001], 104 'Description: middle Helladic burial mound.'
3. Tumulus. Zavadil [2012], 601 'Mittelhelladischer Tumulus?'
PERIOD (High Chronology)
1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
a. Messenia III: 149, ..characteristic local MH type..
b. Zavadil [2012]: 601, 'Mittelhelladischer Tumulus?'
c. Boyd [2001]: 104, 'Chronology: middle Helladic.'
NOTE
1. Marker placed based on the azimuth data in Messenia III, '58A Vigles (Pila)', 149, final paragraph. modified by the additional constraints that it be on top of the ridge and about 120 m north of C250 (Pila Vigles).
34.30 (214.3) (vs. 214.0) degrees to church in Castro of Pylos
199.68 (19.68) (vs. 24.0) degrees to Schoinolakka
290.85 (110.85) (vs. 112.0) degrees from the church in Pila
Here the first term is the reconstructed measurement from the target to the site, the second term (in parentheses) is from the site to the target, and the third term is the corresponding angle as given in Messenia III. The greatest deviation from Messenia III is towards Schoinalakka. Schoinolakka is wide and it's not clear to me that it can be seen from the site. At any rate this site, C448, has been modified by olive culture and the construction of a very large modern house.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. Boyd [2001]: Boyd, Michael John. Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Mortuary Practices In The Southern And Western Peloponnese. 2001, '6: Píla', pg. 104.
Online here.
2. Messenia III: McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Further Explorations in Southwestern Peloponnese: 1964-1968’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 73, No. 2 (Apr., 1969), pp. 123-177., '58A. Vigles (Pila)', pg. 149.
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., 'PYLA/VIGLES (EP. PYLIAS)', pg. 601.
Online here.