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I.—On the Bone-beds of Pikermi, Attica, and on similar Deposits in Northern Eubœa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. Smith Woodward
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At the suggestion of the British Minister at Athens, Sir Edwin H. Egerton, K.C.B., the Trustees of the British Museum recently undertook a series of excavations in the well-known bone-beds of Pikermi, in Attica, and I was honoured by being entrusted with the supervision of the work. The owner of the estate, Mr. Alexander Skousés, former Minister of War, most cordially assented, and gave every possible facility for the undertaking; while Sir Edwin Egerton's unflagging interest and zeal combined to ensure the greatest success. My wife and I went into residence at the farm of Pikermi early in April, and we continued to occupy the simple but comfortable room which Mr. Skousés had kindly placed at our disposal, until the cessation of digging in the middle of July. During much of the time we were accompanied by Dr. Theodore Skouphos, Conservator of the Geological Museum in the University of Athens, which claims some share of the results of all such excavations made in Greece. We have to thank him for much help in dealing with the workmen, who spoke only a language with which I was at first unfamiliar.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 8 , Issue 11 , November 1901 , pp. 481 - 486
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1901

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page 482 note 1 Dames, W., “Hirsche und Mäuse von Pikermi in Attika” : Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Ges., 1883, p. 92, pl. v.Google Scholar

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page 485 note 1 For a brief account of the district see Teller, F., “Der Geologische Bau der Insel Euboea” : Denk. k. Akad. Wiss., math.-naturw. Cl., vol. xl (1880), pp. 156–160Google Scholar.