Site details

Gonies To Phlektron

PK	C4493
TITLE	Gonies To Phlektron
WGS84	35.214392° N, 25.433611° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.214392, 25.433611
LON/LAT	25.433611, 35.214392

DMS

35° 12' 51.8112" N

25° 26' 0.9996" E

W3W	misfires, plumbers, pens
UTM	35 S, 357432, 3897943
EGSA87	630333, 3897471

Elevation m	865
Elevation feet	2837.9
Region	Crete
Subregion	Lasithi

GENERAL SITE TYPE Settlement

TYPE

1.    hab.   Nowicki [2000], 1489    'Pottery indicates that the site was occupied in exactly the same period as Karfi, ...'
2.    settlement.   Eaby [2007], 121    'An LM IIIC - SM/PG defensible settlement has been identified on To Flechtron, ...'

SITE SIZE

- Nowicki [2000]  p. 148,  Size: 9600 sq. m.  '...an area c. 160 by 60 m...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan: (2100 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 150, 'Dating: MM?, ...'
    b.    Nowicki [2000]: 149, 'Only a few fine ware fragments were seen on the top of the rocky knoll (Area A), where also a few probable MM sherds were identified.'

2. Late Minoan IIIC: (1200 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Nowicki [2000]: 150, '..., LM IIIC.', 'Pottery indicates that the site was occupied in exactly the same period as Karfi, namely LM IIIC.'
    b.    Eaby [2007]: 121, 'An LM IIIC - SM/PG defensible settlement ... '

3. Protogeometric: (1100 BC - 900 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 121, 'An LM IIIC - SM/PG defensible settlement ... '

4. Sub Mycenaean: (1060 BC - 1000 BC)
    a.    Eaby [2007]: 121, 'An LM IIIC - SM/PG defensible settlement ... '

NOTES

1. Marker is on the saddle of Flechtron. The ruined mandra is 24 meters to the NE. And see Nowicki [2000] 149, fig. 80.

2. Site contributed by Professor Sarah Murray, University of Toronto, Canada.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Eaby [2007]: Eaby, Melissa Suzanne. Mortuary Variability in Early Iron Age Cretan Burials. Dissertation for Ph.D. submitted to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 2007., '80. Gonies', pg. 121. Online here.

2. Nowicki [2000]: Nowicki, Krzysztof. Defensible Sites in Crete; c. 1200 - 800 B.C. (LM IIIB/IIIC through Early Geometric). Aegaeum (Annales d'archéologie égéenne de l'Université de Liège et UT-PASP), 21., '62. Gonies To Flechtron', pg. 148.