Tsangli Excavation 1910
Following trial excavations by Christos Tsundas in 1905, members of the British School at Athens (A.J.B. Wace and M.S. Thompson) began excavations at the site of Tsangli in central Thessaly in 1910. Several shafts were made in the mound, from the top of the mound to virgin soil to test the stratification. The mound was about two hundred metres long and two hundred and ten wide, and the deposit in the highest part about ten metres thick. The east side was cleared in two small areas where remains of four Neolithic houses, three of which were superimposed (Houses P, Q and R) and one that stood alone (House T), all square in plan. Of the superimposed houses, the first two houses had been merely abandoned, but the third had been destroyed by fire near the end of the Neolithic period. House T was better preserved and larger than the others and divided across the middle by a row of wooden posts; it had eight internal buttresses, two in each angle, and a door in the middle of the south wall. A large number of vases were found in this house, many celts, and some interesting terracotta statuettes. In general the excavation was very rich in stone and bone implements; particularly celts and a cache of 'sling-bullets'. One cist tomb was discovered at the top of the mound, but Tsountas had located more in 1905.
Active from Mar 1910 to Apr 1910.
Thompson, Mr Maurice S. O.B.E.
Wace, Mr Alan John Bayard
Wace, Alan J. & Thompson, Maurice S. 1912. Prehistoric Thessaly, being some account of recent excavations and explorations in north-eastern Greece from Lake Kopais to the borders of Macedonia. 272.