Site details

Lipsoi: Kastro

PK	C7113
TITLE	Lipsoi: Kastro
WGS84	37.286438° N, 26.774027° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.286438, 26.774027
LON/LAT	26.774027, 37.286438

DMS

37° 17' 11.1768" N

26° 46' 26.4972" E

W3W	friday, unwraps, webs
UTM	35 S, 479969.47, 4126672.57
EGSA87	745771, 4129969

Elevation m	99
Elevation feet	324.8
Region	Dodecanese
Subregion	Lipsoi

GENERAL SITE TYPE Sherds

TYPE

1.    Settlement.   Simpson and Lazenby [1970], 52    ' ..., so that the settlement appears to have been remarkably large when compared to the size of the island.'
2.    Sherds.   Simpson and Dickinson [1979], 368    'Some coarse ware sherds here appear to be MB or LB , but later pottery predominates.'

SITE SIZE

- Simpson and Dickinson [1979]  p. 368,  Size: 4800 sq. m.  ' ..., enclosing the small summit (c. 120 m. NW-SE by 40 m.).'

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Bronze Age: (2100 BC - 1550 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 368, 'MB or LB? A ... '
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: 52, ' ... a class of coarse ware was noted which seems to belong to the Middle or Late Bronze Age.'

2. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 368, 'MB or LB? A ... '
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: 52, 'Nothing clearly L.H. was found, but one piece with monochrome dark paint on the interior and brown stripes on a buff slip on the exterior may be either Mycenaean or Archaic.'

3. Late Bronze Age: (1570 BC - 1200 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: 52, ' ... a class of coarse ware was noted which seems to belong to the Middle or Late Bronze Age.'

4. Archaic: (700 BC - 480 BC)
    a.    Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: 368, 'MB or LB? A ... '
    b.    Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: 52, 'Nothing clearly L.H. was found, but one piece with monochrome dark paint on the interior and brown stripes on a buff slip on the exterior may be either Mycenaean or Archaic.'

NOTE

1. Plate 16b in Simpson and Lazenby [1970] shows the Kastro hill on the left.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Simpson and Lazenby [1970]: Simpson, Richard Hope and J.F. Lazenby. ‘Notes from the Dodecanese II’, The Annual of the British School at Athens (65), pp. 47-77, 1970., 'Lipsoi: Kastro', pg. 51. Online here.

2. Simpson and Dickinson [1979]: Simpson, Richard Hope and O.T.P.K. Dickinson. A Gazetteer of Aegean Civilization in the Bronze Age, Vol. I: The Mainland and the Islands. Paul Åströms Förlag, Goteborg. 1979., 'Lipsoi: Kastro', pg. 368. Online here.