Looking at the site
 Ag. Marina, looking south over the site. © Sphakia Survey |
We begin with a description of the site, using real site notes from the Sphakia survey.
 Ag. Marina, looking south-west over the site. © Sphakia Survey |
Ag. Marina is a very large Prehistoric site with at least 15 separate concentrations of pottery, plus general scatter, on the gentle south-facing slopes from the area north of the coastal bay called Lakkos, across 2 gullies, to the plateau west of Ag. Marina.
 Ag. Marina, looking south over the site. © Sphakia Survey |
Height: 12-40m. Area: 350m x 900m. Easy coastal access.
 Ag. Marina, scatter 8. General view looking north. Scale 1m. © Sphakia Survey |
Much of the site has been recently bulldozed and ploughed for new olive trees, so the sherds are large with many fresh breaks and joins. Sherds collected: 1582.
 Ag. Marina, scatter 8. Close-up, looking north-east. Scale 1m. © Sphakia Survey |
The average size of a concentration is 15 x 10m; densities per square metre 15-50. Several pottery concentrations are associated with walls.
 Ag. Marina, looking SSE at Minoan structure with a jog; Tracy Pilant scale. © Sphakia Survey |
Structure 1, 18 x 16m, probably L-shaped, with a jog in one of the walls.
Structure 2, maximum length of wall 15m, width 80cm. Structure 3 consists of 2 walls seen in section by dirt road; max lengths 3m and 6m.
Prehistoric pottery looks homogeneously Middle Minoan-Late Minoan with tripod feet, conical cups, cooking dish rims, decorated pithos, spouted vessels, and a bull figurine. A little Graeco-Roman pottery to the northern end of the site.
It seems likely that each concentration represents a structure (or structures?) with its associated pottery.