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Kretharetses (Platanos): Mound 1

PKC320
TITLEKretharetses (Platanos): Mound 1
WGS84 37.01067° N, 21.719987° E
Accuracy 50 m.

LAT/LON 37.01067, 21.719987
LON/LAT 21.719987, 37.01067

DMS 37° 0' 38.412" N,21° 43' 11.9532" E

W3Wclinical, saddens, treacle
UTM34 S, 564053, 4096298
EGSA87 296997, 4098198

Elevation m219
Elevation feet 718.5
RegionMessenia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  mound

TYPE

1.    Mound.   Boyd [2001], 124    'Description: three MH burial mounds, ...'
2.    Mound.   Messenia I, 241    'Two mounds, ..., are visible not far south of the road between Platanos village and its junction with the Iklaina road.'
3.    Tumulus.   Ålin [1962], 85    ' ... fand hier 2 Erhöhungen, die vermutlich als Siedlungshügel zu betrachten sind.'
4.    Tumulus.   Zavadil [2012], 601    'Zwei Tumuli?'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Boyd [2001]: 124, 'Chronology: MH-LH.'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Boyd [2001]: 124, 'Chronology: MH-LH.'
    b.    Messenia I: 241, 'One sherd could be LH coarse ware.'
    c.    Ålin [1962]: 85, 'Einige Scherben werden als späthelladisch vermutet.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Ålin [1962]:  Ålin, Per. Das Ende der mykenischen Fundstätten auf dem griechischen Festland. Carl Bloms Boktryckeri A.-B., Lund, 1962., 'Kretharetses', pg. 85.

2.  Boyd [2001]:  Boyd, Michael John. Middle Helladic And Early Mycenaean Mortuary Practices In The Southern And Western Peloponnese. 2001, '15: Plátanos', pg. 124. Online here.

3.  Messenia I:  McDonald, William A. and Richard Hope Simpson. ‘Prehistoric Habitation in Southwestern Peloponnese’, American Journal of Archaeology. Vol. 65, No. 3 (Jul., 1961), pp. 221-260., '51(1). Kretharetses (Platanos)', pg. 241. Online here.

4.  Zavadil [2012]:  Zavadil, Michaela. Monumenta: Studien zu mittel- und späthelladischen Gräbern in Messenien. Wien:Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften. 2012., 'Platanos/Kritharetses (Ep. Pylias)', pg. 600. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C320 is at 36.98465° N, 21.65342° E, a straight-line distance of 6 km and 589 m.