EEN SURVEY IN HET GEBIED TEN NOORDEN VAN HELLENISTISCH HALOS (GRIEKENLAND)

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In September 1990, a survey was started within the territory of the Hellenistic city of Halos; a project of the BAI, in coopera­tion with the Archaeological Museum at Volos (Greece). The aim of the fieldwork in 1990 was to map the archaeological re­mains in a region southeast of the village of Platanos in the Almirós Plain (Thessa­lia, Greece). The survey resulted in the location of 40 tumili sites, a Mycenaean tomb, a medieval settlement on the south bank of the Platanórrema and a prehistoric settlement on the north bank of the Am­phrysos. The presence of graves in the neighbourhood and the artefacts on the sur­face indicated that the latter settlement prospered during the Late Bronze Age and the Mycenaean and Geometric periods. Ar­tefacts collected on the Magoúla Plata­niótiki dated in general to the Classical Period, confirming the supposition that the rising ground of the magoula is the site of Old Halos.