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assumption that peers will all understand the material being described on the same level and
that biases and preconceptions brought to it will be limited. The resulting categories and
explanations for them are as follows:
Site Type 1:
Findspot: one or two artefacts found through reconnaissance, survey or chance discovery.
Scatter: three or more artefacts found through reconnaissance, survey or chance discovery.
Assemblage: a number of artefacts found through excavation or by chance, but deposited
within the ground therefore not a scatter.
Structure: where structures, whether walls, banks, house foundations and/or built tombs are
or were present.
Structure+findspot: walls, banks, building foundations and/or tombs in addition to one or
two artefacts.
Structure+scatter: walls, banks, building foundations and/or tombs in addition to three or
more artefacts
Structure+assemblage: walls, banks, building foundations and/or tombs in addition to a
number of artefacts found through excavation or by chance, but deposited in the ground
therefore not a scatter.
A scatter proved difficult to quantify. Many descriptions, especially those in the gazetteers, do
not use absolute numbers but terms such as ‘a number’ (e.g. Howell 1970, n.16 Loukas-Ayios
Yioryios) ‘a few’ (e.g. Howell 1970, n.14 Nestane; Hope Simpson & Dickinson 1979, p.76
B3 Vounon) ‘several’ (e.g. Hope Simpson 1965, p.38 n.83 Pheneos) or simply ‘a scatter’ (e.g.
Howell 1970, n. 17 Merkovouni-Ayiolias; Hope Simpson & Dickinson 1979, p.82 B27).
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