Site details

Agia Triada Petrokopio

PK	C7566
TITLE	Agia Triada Petrokopio
WGS84	35.037767° N, 26.128683° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.037767, 26.128683
LON/LAT	26.128683, 35.037767

DMS

35° 2' 15.9612" N

26° 7' 43.2588" E

W3W	juvenile, tinkle, stung
UTM	35 S, 420526.38, 3877578.24
EGSA87	694024, 3879014

Elevation m	501
Elevation feet	1643.7
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    Building.   Nowicki [2014], 140    ? 'Poor remains of a stone structure were unearthed by illegal excavators ... '
2.    Pottery.   Nowicki [2014], 140    'Pottery is of the Red Ware Fabric Group ... with many fragments of good quality, fired in red through the entire biscuit.'
3.    Wall.   Nowicki [2014], 140    'This natural defensibility was probably complemented by a wall, ,,, '

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2014]  p. 139,  Size: 1000 sq. m.  Approx. The area of this acute scalene triangle is ~992.157 sq. m. : ' ..., ca. 60 by 50 by 40 m in size, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Final Neolithic II: (3200 - 2800)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 140, ' ... the site was occupied from the FN II through the early EM I period.'

2. Early Minoan I: (3100 BC - 2650 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2014]: 140, ' ... the site was occupied from the FN II through the early EM I period.'

NOTE

1. The bearing from the chapel of Hagia Triada to the site is approx. 260.6° so it is WSW of the chapel and not SSW as Nowicki would have it. The distance between the two is approx. 594 m.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Nowicki [2014]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Final Neolithic Crete and the Southeast Aegean. De Gruyter, United States, 2014., '54 Agia Triada Petrokopio', pg. 139. Online here.