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Borg In-Nadur (The Double Chapel)

PKC6310
TITLEBorg In–Nadur (The Double Chapel)
WGS84 35.831024° N, 14.52914° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 35.831024, 14.52914
LON/LAT 14.52914, 35.831024

DMS 35° 49' 51.6864" N,14° 31' 44.904" E

W3Wtranspired, young, ratifies
UTM33 S, 457472, 3965309
EGSA87 -356782, 4006583

Elevation m11
Elevation feet 36.1
RegionMalta





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Sherds

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 329    '338 Borg en Nadur'
2.    Sherds.   Vella et al. [2011], 53    ' ...; the 'painted sherd' identified as Mycenaean by Lord William Taylour in 1958, was found outside the Double Chapel to the west ... '
3.    Sherds.   Taylour [1958, 2010], 79    ' ... John Evans, ..., came upon a sherd that he immediately recognised as Mycenean; ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Vella et al. [2011]: 53, ' ... as Mycenaean ... '

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 329, 'LHIIIB'
    b.    Taylour [1958, 2010]: 80, ' ... it cannot be later than III B, nor is it likely to be any earlier ... '

NOTE

1.  Spelled 'Borg en Nadur' in Taylour [1979] 79.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Tanasi and Vella [2011]:  Tanasi, Davide and Nicholas C. Vella. Site, artefacts and landscape - Prehistoric Borg in-Nadur, Malta. Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher. Monza/Italy [2011]., '', Essays on Borg In-Nadur throughout.
Online here.

2.  Taylour [1958, 2010]:  Taylour, Lord William. Mycenaean Pottery in Italy and Adjacent Areas. Cambridge University Press. 1958, 2010., 'Malta', pg. 79.

3.  van Wijngaarden [2002]:  van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (ca. 1600 - 1200 BC). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Amsterdam University Press. 2002., 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery', pg. 323. Online here.

4.  Vella et al. [2011]:  Vella, Nicholas C. and MariaElena Zammit, Anton Bugeja. ‘3. Borg in-Nadur: the excavations of Margaret A. Murray and David H. Trump’, Tanasi and Vella [2011], pp. 45-68, '', pg. 53. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6310 is at 35.83036° N, 14.53006° E, a straight-line distance of 111.6 m.