Site details

Polin: Kastro

PK	C1409
TITLE	Polin: Kastro
WGS84	35.405503° N, 26.937789° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.405503, 26.937789
LON/LAT	26.937789, 35.405503

DMS

35° 24' 19.8108" N

26° 56' 16.0404" E

W3W	persistence, dank, tipped
UTM	35 S, 494351, 3918015
EGSA87	766640, 3921689

Elevation m	206
Elevation feet	675.9
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Kasos

GENERAL SITE TYPE Hab

TYPE

1.    hab.   Simpson [1981], 200    'The main ancient settlement was on the Kastro above Polin. The top surface of this small acropolis hill, about 60 m. east to west by 40 m., ...'
2.    Sherds.   Melas [1985], 49    'On the eastern side, which is very steep, a good stretch of circuit wall is preserved on the brow of a high cliff. ... The sherds are mostly Geometric, but some Mycenaean fragments are included as well.'
3.    Sherds.   Simpson and Lazenby [1970], 70

SITE SIZE

- Simpson [1981]  p. 200,  Size: 2400 sq. m.  'The top surface of this small acropolis hill, about 60 m. east to west by 40 m., ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 200, 'EB LB LH III? G A C H'
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: 70, List of objects from 'Early ... Bronze Age'.

2. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: 70, List of objects from 'Middle Bronze Age'.

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: 70, 'To the L.H. period seem to belong a sherd of fine buff clay, ..., and two ring bases also apparently from Deep Bowls, ...'
    b.    Melas [1985]: 49, ' ... some Mycenaean fragments are included as well.'

4. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 200, 'EB LB LH III? G A C H'

5. LH III: (1410 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Simpson [1981]: 200, 'EB LB LH III? G A C H'

6. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Melas [1985]: 50, 'Perhaps some time within the Late Helladic IIIA period the Mycenaeans came to the island and established themselves on the Citadel of Poli, ...'

7. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: 70, 'Fragment from a Skyphos, in fine buff clay, ... Geometric.'
    b.    Melas [1985]: 49, 'The sherds are mostly Geometric, ...', '...from the Early Iron Age onwards the occupation of the site became more and more intensive, judging from the abundance of Geometric and later pottery.'

8. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: 70, 'Part of the panelled design from a Black Figure vase, with traces of added purple paint. Late sixth century B.C.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Melas [1985]: Melas, Emmanuel. The Islands of Karpathos, Saros and Kasos in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Paul Åströms Förlag, Göteborg 1985., 'M71. Poli', pg. 49.

2. Simpson [1981]: Simpson, Richard Hope. Mycenaean Greece. Park Ridge, New Jersey: Noyes Press, 1981., 'Polin: Kastro', pg. 200. Online here.

3. Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby. ‘Notes from the Dodecanese II’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (65), pp. 47-77, 1970., 'Kasos; Kastro at Polin', pg. 69. And see, on this page, the fine sketch map of Kasos, Fig. 13.
Online here.