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Kokkoretsa South

PKC742
TITLEKokkoretsa South
WGS84 38.404559° N, 23.182844° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 38.404559, 23.182844
LON/LAT 23.182844, 38.404559

DMS 38° 24' 16.4124" N,23° 10' 58.2384" E

W3Wintends, spoken, spaniel
UTM34 S, 690601, 4252959
EGSA87 428502, 4250732

Elevation m140
Elevation feet 459.3
RegionBoeotia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Fort

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Lauffer [1986], 36    
2.    Fort.   Farinetti [2011 AI8], 15    '... which is probably the site of a fort overlooking the passage from Copais to Lake Yliki area'
3.    Fort.   Fossey [1988], 313    'The minor fortification on Kalambaki to the North is a square tower of rough polygonal masonry, and around it are remains of a few other buildings.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. EH: (3100 BC - 2000 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 313, Pottery 'EH (including EHII), ...'

2. EH II: (2700 BC - 2200 BC)
    a.    Fossey [1988]: 313, Pottery 'EH (including EHII), ...'

3. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Farinetti [2011 AI8]: 15, 'The place was visited by Lauffer (Kopais I: 36) who dates the remains to the LH period...'
    b.    Lauffer [1986]: 36,

NOTE

1.  The marker was placed based on the map in Farinetti Appendix I.8, 'The Copais area: Haliartia', p. 1, Fig. 1, no. 25. The toponym 'Kokkoretsa South' is likewise borrowed from Farinetti.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Farinetti [2011 AI8]:  Farinetti, Emeri. Boeotian Landscapes; A GIS-based study ... Appendix I.8; The Copais area: Haliartia. British Archaeological Reports, no. 2195. 2011., '25. Kokkoretsa South: Components HA_54 to HA_59', pg. 15. Specifically component HA_55

2.  Fossey [1988]:  Fossey, John M.. Topography and Population of Ancient Boiotia. Ares publishers Inc., Chicago, Illinois. 1988., '', pg. 313.

3.  Lauffer [1986]:  Lauffer, Siegfried. Kopais; Untersuchungen zur historischen Landeskunde Mittelgriechenlands. Peter Lang GmbH. 1986., '', pg. 36.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C742 is at 38.49752° N, 23.33209° E, a straight-line distance of 16 km and 625 m.