<< Text Pages >> Kestel - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Turkey
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Multi-periodSite Name: Kestel Alternative Name: GöltepeCountry: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 22.88 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Niğde Nearest Village: Celaller
Latitude: 37.807444N Longitude: 34.906518E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Ancient Mine in Niğde Province, Turkey
An early Bronze Age tin mine dating from 2500 BCE containing "a very large and long gallery complex exceeding 1.5 km". The people who mined the site lived at Göltepe, a hilltop settlement about 1km to the south of the mine.
More information at the TAY Project website Kestel and Göltepe pages.
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