Site details

Armenochori: Mound

PK	C7022
TITLE	Armenochori: Mound
WGS84	40.793519° N, 21.462793° E
Accuracy	100 m.

LAT/LON	40.793519, 21.462793
LON/LAT	21.462793, 40.793519

DMS

40° 47' 36.6684" N

21° 27' 46.0548" E

W3W	copiers, regurgitated, availing
UTM	34 T, 539042.87, 4515939.14
EGSA87	285792, 4518648

Elevation m	615
Elevation feet	2017.7
Region	Macedonia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Mound

TYPE

1. Mound. Leekley and Efstratiou [1980], 78 'A prehistoric mound overlooking the valley of the Cerna River, about 5 km northeast of Florina, ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Early Bronze Age: (3200 BC - 2100 BC)
a. Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 78, 'Two levels of the Early Macedonian Bronze Age ... were revealed.'

NOTES

1. Leekley and Efstratiou [1980] list finds as " ... sun-dried brick huts and stone wall foundations were excavated, and pottery tankards, stone implements and a figurine ... "

2. With respect to position Heurtley [1939] 57 says: "Armenochori ... stands in the plain 5 km. east of Florina, on the edge of an escarpment at the eastern foot of which a tributary stream flows northwards to join the Tserna ... "

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Heurtley [1939]: Heurtley, W. A.. Prehistoric Macedonia; An Archaeological Reconnaissance of Greek Macedonia (west of the Struma) in the Neolithic, Bronze, and Early Iron Ages. Oxford University Press, '', Online here.

2. Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: Leekley, Dorothy and Nicholas Efstratiou. Archaeological Excavations in Northern Greece. Noyes Press, Park Ridge, New Jersey. 1980, 'Armenokhorion (Florina)', pg. 78.