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Koxares: Koules

PKC5803
TITLEKoxares: Koules
WGS84 35.220752° N, 24.466762° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.220752, 24.466762
LON/LAT 24.466762, 35.220752

DMS 35° 13' 14.7072" N,24° 28' 0.3432" E

W3Wpricked, makers, debts
UTM35 S, 269435.02, 3900464.8
EGSA87 542330, 3897335

Elevation m362
Elevation feet 1187.7
RegionCrete
SubregionHagios Vasileios





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Hood and Warren [1966], 180    'There was evidently a Minoan settlement here.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 180, '...some of the pottery at 'Koules' is certainly Minoan, and M.M. III - L.M. I in character.'

2. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Hood and Warren [1966]: 180, '...some of the pottery at 'Koules' is certainly Minoan, and M.M. III - L.M. I in character.'

NOTE

1.  And for the location (which can hardly be missed) see the photo in Hood and Warren [1966] plate 37, (b) A

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Hood and Warren [1966]:  Hood, Sinclair and Peter Warren. ‘Ancient Sites in the Province of Ayios Vasilios, Crete’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (61) pp. 163-191, 1966., '18. Koxare: Koules', pg. 180. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C5803 is at 35.17353° N, 24.41752° E, a straight-line distance of 6 km and 884 m.