KOUPHOVOUNO - 2010

General Information

Record ID

1891

Activity Date

2010

Chronology

Neolithic - Middle Neolithic

Bronze Age - Early Bronze Age

Antiquity - Roman

Key-words

Hearth/Kiln/Oven - Plant remains - Bone - Stone

Type of Operation

Survey

Institution

British School at Athens (BSA) (British School at Athens (BSA))

Localisation

Toponym
Sykarakion

Linked Record

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

Report

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.

Author

Catherine MORGAN

Bibliographic reference(s)

Unpublished field report, British School at Athens