TRAGANO - Toumbes - 2000

Tragano Markopoulou (G. Vourtsari property). O. Vikatou (Ζ' ΕΠΚΑ) reports the discovery of a new Mycenaean cemetery at Toumbes (or Pleures), east of Markopoulos. The discovery was made in the course of sand extraction and the damage caused by the digger made it impossible to establish the number of tombs present.

In the process of cutting a plateau into the lower slopes of the hill, the digger removed almost all of the dromos and chamber of a chamber tomb. The surviving part consists of the north wall and part of a burial pit containing bones over which were placed a stirrup jar and a ring vase.

Some 2m away were three courses of a dry-stone wall from the entrance of another chamber tomb. While the dromos was completely destroyed, the oval chamber survived intact. To the right of the door, in the east of the chamber, lay bones displaced to the north and a burial along the side wall, the latter with two stirrup jars, two ring vases and a handmade cup.

Finds date the tombs to LHIIIC. Bone and sherds were scattered across the entire area.