Vrokastro

Vrokastro was an ancient Minoan civilization settlement in the Lasithi regional unit of eastern Crete [1]. It overlooks the Gulf of Mirabello [1]. The site was a mountain citadel located on a hill 1,5 km east of Priniatikos Pyrgos [1]. Vrokastro bridges the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the early Iron Age [1]. In 1910-1912, American archaeologist Edith Hall Dohan, of the University of Pennsylvania Museum excavated here the ruins of a Minoan period settlement [1]. She uncovered a Middle Minoan and Early Iron Age settlement on the peak and north slope, elevation 300 m [1]. Hall excavated burials from 1200 B.C. to 700/650 BC [1].