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Excavations in Macedonia—II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2013

S. Casson
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The excavations of 1921 in Macedonia recorded in Vol. XXIV. of the Annual (p. 1 ff.) were completed in 1922. The site known as Chauchitsa was completely examined and the cemetery on the two rocky mounds was sufficiently excavated to make it possible to establish the main features of the burial methods and equipment. The high mound at the back of the cemetery on the edge of the plateau was also excavated and found to be an undisturbed stratified site. The strata revealed were of the fourth century B.C., of the Early Iron Age, and below that of the Bronze Age. The objects found in the Bronze Age strata and the nature of these strata have been fully dealt with elsewhere: the purpose of this report is to describe the cemetery, the Iron Age deposit which overlay the Bronze Age settlement, the Historic strata which overlay the Iron Age settlement, and, finally, to shew the connection between the Iron Age settlement and the cemetery at the foot of the plateau.

The East Mound (Figs. 1 and 2).—Fourteen graves in all were opened in the first season and have been duly recorded. In the second season a further twenty-two graves were opened, and all alike shewed the same general character as the first fourteen.

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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 26 , November 1925 , pp. 1 - 29
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1925

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page 1 note 1 See Archaeologia, Vol. lxxiv. p. 73 ff.

page 3 note 1 See Vol. xxiv. p. 7, where the corrosive nature of the soil is emphasised.

page 3 note 2 They were all unhewn and frequently water-worn, as though brought from streambeds. Some were as much as ·5 m. in width.

page 4 note 1 Liverpool, Annals of Arch. and Anthr., Vol. xii. p. 15.Google Scholar

page 4 note 2 Times, May 31, 1926.

page 4 note 3 Antiquaries Journal, Vol. vi. p. 59.

page 14 note 1 Vol. xxiv. p. 22, Fig. 16.

page 16 note 1 Vol. xxiv. p. 8, and Pl. I.

page 16 note 2 See Archaeologia, Vol. lxxiv. p. 78, Fig. 2.

page 17 note 1 B.S.A. xxiv. p. 20, Fig. 13.

page 17 note 2 Ibid. p. 21.

page 20 note 1 See my paper in Man, Jan. 1924. See also Schweitzer, , Untersuchungen zur Chronologie der geometrischen Stelè in Griechenland, I. (Karlsruhe) Pl. III.Google Scholar

page 20 note 2 B.S.A. xxiv. p. 25 ff.

page 20 note 3 Heurtley, , Liverpool Annals, Vol. xii. p. 35 and p. 36, n. 4.Google Scholar

page 20 note 4 Except for the two Thessalian and the one Skyriot example. See B.S.A. xxiv. p. 27. These are isolated examples.

page 20 note 5 See Archaeologia, Vol. lxxiv. p. 85.

page 21 note 1 Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria (1926), Figs. 35 and 36, and Antiq. Journ., Pl. XII. Figs. 1 and 2, Pl. XIII. Fig. 2.

page 21 note 2 See Heurtley, op. cit., Pl. XIX. 5–8.

page 22 note 1 Antiq. Journ., Vol. i. p. 211, Fig. 3.

page 22 note 2 For full references see my Macedonia, Thrace and Illyria (1926), p. 149.

page 22 note 3 See op. cit. p. 167.

page 22 note 4 B.S.A. xix. Pl. VII. A.

page 23 note 1 B.S.A. xxiv. p. 16, Fig. II.

page 23 note 2 Ibid. p. 18, Fig. 12a.

page 23 note 3 Antiq. Journ., Vol i. Pl. VI. Fig. 2, and Pl. VII. Fig. I.

page 23 note 4 See Louvre, , Catalogue Sommaire des bijoux antiques (1924), Pl. II., 101, 103.Google Scholar See also 102 and 104 in the text. All four come from Zeitenlik, some five kilometres north of Salonika. See also Gardner, E. A., B.S.A. xix. p. 21Google Scholar, Fig. 9, for another example from a grave at Aivasil near Lake Langaza.

page 24 note 1 Gardner, loc. cit., Fig. II.

page 24 note 2 B.S.A. xxiv. p. 21.

page 25 note 1 Antiq. Journ., Vol. i. Pl. VII. Fig. 2 (6).

page 25 note 2 B.S.A. xxiv. p. 14, Fig. 10.

page 26 note 1 Antiq. Journ., Vol. ii. Pl. VI. Fig. 2.

page 26 note 2 Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte (1925), ii. Pl. CV.a.

page 26 note 3 B.S.A. xxiv. p. 18, Fig. 12(b).

page 26 note 4 Antiq. Journ., Vol. i. Pl. VII. Fig. 1.

page 27 note 1 Olympia, IV Pl. XXIII, No. 416. Other examples come from near Amphipolis (in Vienna) and from Dedeli near Lake Doiran (now in Leipzig).

page 27 note 2 Neither has been published. The former is in the Collection of Antiquities in the Prefecture at Salonika, the latter in the Sparta Museum.

page 27 note 3 Reallexikon der Vorgeschichte (1925), ii. Pl. CV.b. Another comes from Amphipolis.

page 28 note 1 Liverpool Annals, op. cit.

page 28 note 2 Antiq. Journ. Vol. vi. p. 71.

page 28 note 3 Ibid. Vol. i. Fig. 3. A close parallel can be seen in a bronze ‘antennae’ sword from Italy, also of early date. Mon. Ant. xv. Pl. III. Another good example in the museum at Prague.

page 28 note 4 Man, January, 1924, p. 7, n., and reference there given.

page 28 note 5 Wissensch. Mitth. Bos. Herz. Vol. iv. p. 3 ff., xi. p. 101 ff. and xii. p. 21, fig. 14.

page 29 note 1 Mr. Heurtley accepts this dating, op. cit., p. 35.