The ARCHAEOLOGICAL footpath from the Mycenaean period in the Classical age

MYCENAEAN VAULTED-THOLOS TOMB  C

   Left beside the public road Pteleos - Saint Theodore at kilometer point 4 from high school Grammatikeio Pteleos, in (hill) 'Gritsa' Pteleos Magnesia Greese location, excavated in 1953, by archaeologist Nicholas M. Verdelis the expense of the Archaeological Society of Athens, vaulted ( tholos ) Mycenaean tomb.
The tholos tomb C,  preserves its walls at a considerable height.
The road (dromos) is oriented to the north and slightly departs from the horizontal axis of the tholos.
It is 2 m long and its width varies from 1.07m to 0,90 m at the entrance of the tholos.
Its side walls converge.
The lintel above the entrance of the tholos is 1.30m long, 0,55m  wide and 0,08 m high.
The tholos has a diameter of 5,20m and height of maximum 2.50m.
Two pits with bones were found on the floor of the tholos ......

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