<< Text Pages >> Tal al-Ashari - Barrow Cemetery in Syria
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DigsSite Name: Tal al-AshariCountry: Syria
NOTE: This site is 24.941 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Daraa Nearest Village: Daraa
Latitude: 32.625278N Longitude: 36.106111E
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 |
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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 |
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13 middle Bronze Age barrow cemetaries in Syria. Head of Dara Archaeology Department, Hussein Mashhadawi said archaeological findings discovered in those cemeteries are pottery, bronze tools, and various accessories. The number of findings discovered reached 800 items.
Five of these cemeteries date back to the Roman era, and 13 cemeteries date back to the middle bronze era.
Note: Thirteen Bronze Age barrow cemetaries unearthed in Syria, see comment
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