Site details

Choiromandres; Guard House

PK	C6074
TITLE	Choiromandres; Guard House
WGS84	35.07175° N, 26.236374° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	35.07175, 26.236374
LON/LAT	26.236374, 35.07175

DMS

35° 4' 18.3" N

26° 14' 10.9464" E

W3W	snooping, reminds, bluntest
UTM	35 S, 430378, 3881267
EGSA87	703764, 3882998

Elevation m	87
Elevation feet	285.4
Region	Crete
Subregion	Siteia

GENERAL SITE TYPE hab

TYPE

1.    Guard Post.   Chryssoulaki et al [1990], 48    'Le poste de garde, ...'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Minoan IIIB: (1700 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Chryssoulaki et al [1990]: 51, 'Les trouvailles sont datées du MM III ? (fragment de cruche 1. 28/88) 18, du MM III B/MR I A, du MR III et de l'époque gréco-romaine.'

2. Late Minoan IA: (1675 BC - 1625 BC)
    a.    Chryssoulaki et al [1990]: 51, 'Les trouvailles sont datées du MM III ? (fragment de cruche 1. 28/88) 18, du MM III B/MR I A, du MR III et de l'époque gréco-romaine.'

3. Late Minoan III: (1420 BC - 1075 BC)
    a.    Chryssoulaki et al [1990]: 51, 'Les trouvailles sont datées du MM III ? (fragment de cruche 1. 28/88) 18, du MM III B/MR I A, du MR III et de l'époque gréco-romaine.'

NOTE

1. Choiromandres was primarily a hydraulic resource management site consisting of at least two dams, a catchment area, guardhouse, other structures, and terraced slopes.

A good resource is the HYDRIA project page on Choiromandres. It is online here where the reader will find photographs and a concise text explanation.

The Minoan Roads Research Programme devotes a page to their activities at Choiromandres here.

Another discussion of the guard post of Choiromandres is in 'Les routes minoennes : Rapport préliminaire - Défense de la circulation ou circulation de la défense' by Chryssoulaki et al., Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (113), pp. 43-75 esp. 66 ff., 1989. It is online here.

Some other features in this immediate area are:

The main dam 35.071208°, 26.239076°,
a check dam is at 35.071504°, 26.238784°
additional Minoan period structures 35.072330°, 26.235402°
A building from the 4th c. B.C. stands at 35.071281°, 26.239241°.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Chryssoulaki et al [1990]: Chryssoulaki, Stella and Yannis Tzedakis, Yanna Veniéri, Maria Avgouli. ‘Les routes minoennes - Le poste de Choiromandres (gk.) et le contrôle des communications’, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique (114-1) pp. 43-62, 1990., 'Le poste de Choiromandres (gk). : disposition architecturale', pg. 48. Online here.