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Vigla: Chamber Tomb

PKC5788
TITLEVigla: Chamber Tomb
WGS84 35.385564° N, 24.60342° E
Accuracy 50 m.

LAT/LON 35.385564, 24.60342
LON/LAT 24.60342, 35.385564

DMS 35° 23' 8.0304" N,24° 36' 12.312" E

W3Wrelentless, evaluations, unwed
UTM35 S, 282318, 3918439
EGSA87 554655, 3915680

Elevation m33
Elevation feet 108.3
RegionCrete
SubregionRethymnon





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Chamber Tomb

TYPE

1.    Chamber Tomb.   Hood et al. [1964], 64    'A Minoan (L.M. IIIB) chamber tomb...'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Minoan IIIB: (1330 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Hood et al. [1964]: 64, 'A Minoan (L.M. IIIB) chamber tomb was excavated by Alexiou in 1960 ...'

NOTE

1.  Hood et al. [1964] 64 say 'Other tombs are said to have been found here in the past, and at 'Sinani' ... immediately to the west.' Sinani is actually the next ridge to the east.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Hood et al. [1964]:  Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren, Gerald Cadogan . ‘Travels in Crete, 1962’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (59), pp. 50-99, 1964., '', pg. 64. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5788 is at 35.38885° N, 24.60218° E, a straight-line distance of 381.6 m.