<< Our Photo Pages >> Arsameia - Ancient Village or Settlement in Turkey
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Multi-periodSite Name: ArsameiaCountry: Turkey
NOTE: This site is 7.504 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kahta
Latitude: 37.937125N Longitude: 38.652721E
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Jansold visited on 23rd Sep 2011 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4
PAB h_fenton davidmorgan have visited here
Most of the way down the tunnel there are steps although in places these have been completely worn away. At times water flows down the floor of the tunnel carrying any debris with it, in the top photo you can see the floor of the tunnel is wet.
The lower photo shows what is currently the end of the tunnel, in the 1950s the tunnel was excavated, I'm not too sure whether they got right to the bottom but at the present time the bottom of the tunnel is choked with all the debris that gets washed down with the water in the tunnel - so the debris consists of rock fragments, soil, ancient pottery, chocolate wrappers and plastic bottles.
If you do visit this site and are thinking about going down the tunnel, beyond about 50metres the tunnel gets steeper (and lower - so watch your head!), in places there are no steps, it gets muddy, it can get very slippery - where there are no steps there is just a worn smooth steep rock slope instead.
On my decent I slipped a couple of times and on the way back up I went most of the way on all fours, in some places I was taking two steps forwards then sliding one step backwards. so all in all if you descend this tunnel you are exposing yourself to a certain amount of danger.
I would suggest you take a torch, it is dark down there.
12 May 2003
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