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Megaloi Skinoi C

PKC6275
TITLEMegaloi Skinoi C
WGS84 34.955397° N, 24.797455° E
Accuracy 50 m.

LAT/LON 34.955397, 24.797455
LON/LAT 24.797455, 34.955397

DMS 34° 57' 19.4292" N,24° 47' 50.838" E

W3Wunloving, stud, salons
UTM35 S, 298888, 3870312
EGSA87 572661, 3868098

Elevation m133
Elevation feet 436.4
RegionCrete
SubregionKainourion





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Tomb

TYPE

1.    Tomb.   Goodison and Guarita [2005], 171    'The Mesara-type tombs are circular stone-built structures a number of which show traces of an original corbelled 'tholos' roof.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Minoan: (3100 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 19, 'Dating: SubNeol-MMI.'

2. Middle Minoan I: (2100 BC - 1900 BC)
    a.    Goodison and Guarita [2005]: 192, 'Dating: SubNeol-MMI.'

NOTE

1.  Placed somewhat notionally. Tomb may be further up the hill to E.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Goodison and Guarita [2005]:  Goodison, Lucy and Carlos Guarita. ‘A New Catalogue of the Mesara-Type Tombs’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici [47], pp. 171-212, 2005, '51. Megaloi Skinoi C', pg. 192. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6275 is at 34.93655° N, 24.80999° E, a straight-line distance of 2 km and 382 m.