KOUPHOVOUNO - 2010

Informations Générales

Numéro de la notice

1891

Année de l'opération

2010

Chronologie

Néolithique - Néolithique Moyen

Âge du Bronze - Bronze Ancien

Antiquité - Romaine

Mots-clés

Four - Flore - Os - Pierre

Nature de l'opération

Prospection

Institution(s)

British School at Athens (BSA) (École britannique à Athènes)

Localisation

Toponyme
Sykarakion

Notices et opérations liées

1999 2000 2005 2006 2006 (1)2007 20102010 (1)

Description

Kouphovouno. R. Sweetman (BSA/St Andrews) reports on resistance and magnetometer surveys (carried out by M. Boyd) with the aim of investigating the area immediately west of the excavated Neolithic layers, where test trenches had indicated the possibility of Roman habitation.

Resistivity survey to the west of trench G shows a well-defined rectangular area 6m x 3.5m which could be a kiln, oven or furnace (Fig. 1). Other strong magnetic features, roughly circular in shape, may be furnaces or burned features (Fig. 2). The resistivity survey also shows a wide north-south anomaly (10m long x 3m wide) with an attached rectangular area to the east making a square feature 7 x 7m. This feature could be architectural and the apparently very wide walls might be a result of its collapse. It coincides with the very strong magnetic feature described above and could be a built furnace or kiln. Weak north-south features are evident in both survey and magnetometry data and may be interpreted as terracing or roads. Two possible collapsed architectural features were located in the north central and the south central part of the survey area. The northern feature is oriented northeast-southwest and may be collapsed architecture. The southern one represents a square (ca. 7 x 7m) architectural feature. The results of the magnetometer survey concur with these anomalies.

Auteur de la notice

Catherine MORGAN

Références bibliographiques

Unpublished field report, British School at Athens