Site details

Lake Langada: Ayios Vasileios

PK	C7025
TITLE	Lake Langada: Ayios Vasileios
WGS84	40.653281° N, 23.131267° E
Accuracy	200 m.

LAT/LON	40.653281, 23.131267
LON/LAT	23.131267, 40.653281

DMS

40° 39' 11.8116" N

23° 7' 52.5612" E

W3W	notch, witnessed, scarves
UTM	34 T, 680185.16, 4502452.93
EGSA87	426407, 4500346

Elevation m	142
Elevation feet	465.9
Region	Macedonia

GENERAL SITE TYPE Cem

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Leekley and Efstratiou [1980], 80    Among listed finds in Leekley and Efstratiou [1980] 80 are iron weapons, small gold bands, bronze armlets, rings, amber amulet, gold pin.
2.    Cem.   Leekley and Efstratiou [1980], 80    ' ... four Iron Age slab lined cist tombs ... '
3.    Cem.   Gardner and Casson [1918], 17    ' ... at a depth of about three feet disclosed three stone slabbed burials all running parallel with the trench ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Iron Age: (1200 BC - 535 BC)
    a.    Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: 80, ' ... Iron Age ... '
    b.    Gardner and Casson [1918]: 23, 'Analogies may also be found, especially in the bronze rings, to the Iron Age cemetery at Chauchitza; ... '

2. Geometric: (900 BC - 700 BC)
    a.    Gardner and Casson [1918]: 23, 'The bronze and gold ornaments suggest comparison with the Geometric Age; ... '

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Gardner and Casson [1918]: Gardner, E.A. and S. Casson. ‘Macedonia. II. Antiquities found in the British Zone 1915 - 1919.’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (23) 10-27. 1918/1919, '', pg. 17. Online here.

2. Leekley and Efstratiou [1980]: Leekley, Dorothy and Nicholas Efstratiou. Archaeological Excavations in Northern Greece. Noyes Press, Park Ridge, New Jersey. 1980, 'Ayios Vasileios (Thessaloniki)', pg. 80.