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The Mono-Kairos Windmills of Lasithi1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

N. G. Calvert
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In the 1850s Captain T. A. B. Spratt, subsequently to become Admiral and Director of the Mediterranean Survey, was engaged on the charting of the Aegean. This work was interrupted by the Crimean War and later resumed. Captain Spratt had under his command the paddle frigate Spitfire and the tender Auxiliar, from which he necessarily made journeys ashore in Crete in order to complete the triangulation of the Aegean from the mountain summits to the adjacent islands. On these journeys he took a keen interest in the location of Classical sites. In this respect he followed some thirty years after Robert Pashley whose pioneering work Spratt is reported to have been able occasionally to supplement or correct.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 70 , November 1975 , pp. 51 - 57
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1975

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