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Naltepesi

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Naltepesi
Type:
Upland Settlement
Altitude:
1440 m
Region:
Black Sea
Province:
Ordu
District:
Mesudiye
Village:
Karabayir
Investigation Method:
Survey
Period:
Late

     


The site is located southwest of Ordu; 2 km northwest of Karabayir village that lies approximately 12 km west-northwest of Mesudiye. The settlement is on a natural hill in the middle of a watery plain 500 m south of Ziyaret Tepesi. The name of the settlement is derived from the name of the hill it is on. Intense illicit digging is observed. From the surface; Late Chalcolithic Age; EBA; and 1st Millennium BC painted Phrygian sherds are collected by M. Özsait; who has discovered the site in 1990.
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