Site details

Kera: Vigla (Area C)

PK	C5124
TITLE	Kera: Vigla (Area C)
WGS84	35.214919° N, 25.463612° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.214919, 25.463612
LON/LAT	25.463612, 35.214919

DMS

35° 12' 53.7084" N

25° 27' 49.0032" E

W3W	pincers, rural, sarong
UTM	35 S, 360164, 3897958
EGSA87	633063, 3897570

Elevation m	882
Elevation feet	2893.7
Region	Crete
Subregion	Lasithi

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Nowicki [2000], 165    'This area, ... (Area C, rhc) ..., was once covered with ruins of houses ...'

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. ,  Size: 14418 sq. m.  'My (RHC) rough measurement in Google Earth gives 14418 sq. m. So perhaps we should think of Vigla (A, B, and C) as just over a hectare.'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 164, 'The earliest material noted at Vigla dates back to the EM and MM I period (tripod legs).'

2. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 164, 'The earliest material noted at Vigla dates back to the EM and MM I period (tripod legs).'

3. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 166, 'Some potsherds, ..., resemble LM IIIC-PG forms and fabrics ...'

4. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 166, 'Some potsherds, ..., resemble LM IIIC-PG forms and fabrics ...'

5. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 166, 'The pottery visible on the surface represents for the most part Geometric-Orientalizing/Archaic ...'

6. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 166, 'The pottery visible on the surface represents for the most part Geometric-Orientalizing/Archaic ...'

NOTE

1. This marker is for area C which was covered with the remains of ancient houses. Nowicki [2000] discusses the topography in detail at pp. 165-66 and see Fig. 94 on p. 165.

rhc

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '68. Kera Vigla', pg. 164.