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Çepen Höyük |
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Mound |
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Central Anatolia |
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Eskisehir |
District:
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Merkez |
Village:
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Mollaoglu |
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Survey |
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Early Iron Age Middle Iron Age Late Iron Age |
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It is located at Çepen Mevkii to the south of the Eskisehir-Kütahya motorway, 1.67 km west of the Mollaoglu Village. It was discovered by T. Tüfekçi-Sivas and H. Sivas in 2005. It measures 130x600 m in dimensions with a height of 14 m, being an oval mound. The hillltop is flat. EBA sherds were collected from the shallow pits illicitly dug while sherds dating to the 1st Millennium BC were found on the southern skirt. |
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