Attica
Cape Sounion ancient galleries
Mineral locality Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
MarblesAlso reported: azurite, malachite, adamite in place, look only.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Classical silver-lead galleries in marble beneath the Poseidon temple headland
Part of the exhaustively documented Laurion ancient mining landscape.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
open ancient shafts
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