Galley with a slightly rockered hull. Short stempost and sternpost with rounded extremities. Short pointed bow projection and another similar one at the stern.

Koukos near the village of Sykia, Sithonia, Chalkidike is a hilltop site with remains of a fortification wall, a settlement and a cemetery, probably founded in connection with mining and metalworking operations (Carington-Smith and Vokotopoulou 1988; 1989; 1990; 1992; Vokotopoulou 1987; Charalambidou 2017: 99). Having provided direct evidence for metalworking and located close to the mines of Sykia, it may have been the centre where the ore was extracted and worked while Torone (7 km away) likely served as the distribution centre due to its prominent harbour (Papadopoulos 2005: 592). The pottery associated with the settlement and walls date for the EIA, while the cemetery has yielded various types of graves ranging in date from the end of the 10^th to the early decades of 7^th century. In addition to local handmade pottery, imported wares (amphorae, kraters, lekanides with conical bases) are related mainly to Euboean pottery, and more specifically to Lefkandi in relation to its earliest 10^th century phase (Moschonissioti 2012:8). The presence of an apsidal building, Euboean imports, as well as local pottery recalling the Euboean style have been used to argue for a Euboean presence at the site. The burials were all cremations but practiced in a variety of ways, with finds ranging from bronze bracelets, fibulae, fragmentary iron knives and a spear head, spindle whorls, a silver earring, a gold hair coil, beads of bronze, silver, gold, faience (the last two types probably from Phoenicia). The handful of gold offerings (spirals, beads, wires) suggests the possibility that gold was mined in the region (Leone 2012: 233).

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