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The excavation at Koukos of Sykia, 1990

• Κάριγκτον-Σμιθ, Ι.
• Βοκοτοπούλου, Ιουλία Π.

Excavation of the EIA hilltop site of Koukos, near Sykia, Sithonia Chalcidice, continued for a fourth season in the autumn of 1990. The excavation is a collaboration between the 16th Ephorate of the Greek Archaeological Service and the University of Tasmania. In the cremation cemetery new tests 20-25 added 20 further tombs, many of which, though robbed, produced restorable EIA pots, also bronze fibulae and rings, iron blades and a spear-head, beads, spindle whorls etc. Tombs now total 98: 49 cists,34 pithoi and 15 pits. Later tombs were crowded amongst bedrock oucrops. A second test on the fortification wall, S-7, gave no new information. A test in anew part of the settlement, S-ll, showed four superimposed walls of uncertain date. The mostly non-definitive pottery included some EIA sherds and some? Late Roman in upper levels. New trenches in the main settlement area uncovered many more walls, and worked platforms in the bedrock. Such a platform, equipped with steps and hollows suitable for object display, ran beside the internal face of Wall 2, the main wall of a large building with a porch and a long narrow chamber. Its floor partly covered abothros with a rectangular stone surround which contained black, apparently burnt earth, a little burnt bone, nodules of melted bronze, and pottery of both early and late EIA types. The bothros may have been an ash altar, and if so, the succeeding large building may also have had a religious function, though its finds so far have been of a domestic nature.

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