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Knossos: LM III Shaft Grave

PKC5572
TITLEKnossos: LM III Shaft Grave
WGS84 35.308268° N, 25.166584° E
Accuracy 10 m.

LAT/LON 35.308268, 25.166584
LON/LAT 25.166584, 35.308268

DMS 35° 18' 29.7648" N,25° 9' 59.7024" E

W3Wpasta, educated, bulk
UTM35 S, 333318, 3908771
EGSA87 605906, 3907565

Elevation m61
Elevation feet 200.1
RegionCrete
SubregionTemenos





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Shaft Grave

TYPE

1.    Shaft Grave.   Hood and Smyth [1981], 36    ... SHAFT GRAVE with traces of wooden coffin ...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIA: (1420 BC - 1330 BC)
    a.    Hood and Smyth [1981]: 36, '...and burial assignable to L. M. III A, ...'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Hood and Smyth [1981]:  Hood, Sinclair and David Smyth. ‘Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area’, The British School at Athens. Supplementary Volumes, No. 14, Archaeological Survey of the Knossos Area, pp. i-x & 1-69, 1981, '30. LATE MINOAN III SHAFT GRAVE ...', pg. 36. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5572 is at 35.33393° N, 25.19138° E, a straight-line distance of 3 km and 626 m.