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Cape Sounion ancient galleries

Mineral locality Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
MarblesMarbles

Also 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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