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Knossos 1975: Middle Minoan III and Late Minoan I Houses by the Acropolis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

Elizabeth Catling ,
Hector Catling  and
David Smyth
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We give here a partial account of trial excavations undertaken at Knossos by the British School in autumn 1975 at the request of the Greek Government. The site lay in a field on the south-east flank of the acropolis, immediately above and west of the unmetalled track that runs roughly north–south, leading from the upper part of Knossos (Bougadha Metochi) towards the Venetian aqueduct and, eventually, to Arkhanes (see Site Plan, Fig. 1). The field is the property of the Staphylakis family. Until late summer 1975 it had served as rather low grade arable land, covered with stone apparently eroded from the acropolis. The owner in 1975 applied for permission to deep-plough the land with a view to converting it to an olive-grove.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 74 , November 1979 , pp. 1 - 80
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1979

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