Site details

Knossos: Minoan Bridge

PK	C5590
TITLE	Knossos: Minoan Bridge
WGS84	35.297093° N, 25.162149° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.297093, 25.162149
LON/LAT	25.162149, 35.297093

DMS

35° 17' 49.5348" N

25° 9' 43.7364" E

W3W	crab, squeaks, sampled
UTM	35 S, 332892, 3907539
EGSA87	605517, 3906321

Elevation m	90
Elevation feet	295.3
Region	Crete
Subregion	Temenos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Bridge

TYPE

1.    Bridge.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 55    'Minoan Bridge Ends with foundations of Stepped Portico ... and traces of roadways...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Minoan: (3100 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 55, 'MINOAN BRIDGE', 'MINOAN WELL'

2. Middle Minoan IA: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 55, '...WELL with M. M. I A sherds in the upper part of the fill underlay the ramp of the STEPPED PORTICO...'

NOTE

1. Hood and Smyth [1981] 55, 'The position of the BRIDGE ENDS suggests that in the Bronze Age the course of the Vlikhia was a good deal further north than it is now.'

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hood and Smyth [1981]: Hood, Sinclair and David Smyth. ‘Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area’, The British School at Athens. Supplementary Volumes, No. 14, Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area, pp. i-x & 1-69, 1981, '282. Minoan Bridge Ends', pg. 55. Online here.