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Salakos: Ayios Nikolaos: Settlement?

PKC6685
TITLESalakos: Ayios Nikolaos: Settlement?
WGS84 36.286195° N, 27.94989° E
Accuracy 50 m.

LAT/LON 36.286195, 27.94989
LON/LAT 27.94989, 36.286195

DMS 36° 17' 10.302" N,27° 56' 59.604" E

W3Wclearly, bout, sultans
UTM35 S, 585302, 4016111
EGSA87 854641, 4022648

Elevation m255
Elevation feet 836.6
RegionDodecanese
SubregionRhodes





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Sherds

TYPE

1.    Sherds.   Simpson and Lazenby [1973], 143    ' ... we found a few fragments of coarse ware of gritty fabric, one of which, a jar handle, resembles specimens from Ayios Ioannis Theologos near Tolon ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Prehistoric: (4000 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1973]: 143, ' ... evidence for a prehistoric habitation site here is thus tentative.'

NOTE

1.  Located on the small spur to the W of the chapel of Ayios Nikolas (F5339) SE of Salakos.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Simpson and Lazenby [1973]:  Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby. ‘Notes from the Dodecanese III’, The Annual of the British School at Athens, 68, pp. 127-179, 1973., 'Salakos: Ayios Nikolaos', pg. 143. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6685 is at 36.3441° N, 27.92898° E, a straight-line distance of 6 km and 713 m.