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Loading map.I25 Lefki Kaldtamou (#4)
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Tile: HL-MByz
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Collection Strategy
Selection (S) => Grab by locus (L)
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Location and Description

On the Kaldtamou ridge, SW of the village of Ambelofyto, five locations where prehistoric tumuli have previously been reported (UMME, collectively noted under #14; see also PHSP1: 239 [43]) were reinvestigated by PRAP.

A natural knoll, 2.1 km. SW of the outskirts of Ambelofyto, near the SW end of a ridge overlooking the Kaldtamou spring to the SE[095.28], has been bulldozed to create a complex of currant-drying floors; there is a small cinderblock fieldhouse with a vine-covered porch immediately to the NW. At the edge of the drying floors is a scarp with a shallow deposit of soil (0.4-0.6 m. deep) preserved on the bedrock. In 1991, bones were found projecting from this scarp. In 1993, at the NW corner of the scarp, a tile grave (two tiles with finger swirls[114.08]placed to form an inverted "V") was observed]. There are other fragments of tile in the scarp. Numerous (at least 50) slabs, some very large, are scattered about the knoll and reused as retaining slabs for currant-drying floors[095.33]. It seems clear that a cemetery existed here.

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Artifact Summary

The ceramic finds from these tombs (I23-I27) are extremely mixed chronologically, from Classical to Modern, with one or two earlier pieces. It is impossible to provide any secure dates for many of the tiles.

References
UMME, collectively noted under #14; see also PHSP1: 239 [43]
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