North-coast survey: Catling's Dhiorios, Krini and Davlos visits (1952)

In 1952 Hector W. Catling surveyed Dhiorios-Aloupotrypes, Krini-Merra and Davlos-Pyrgos on the north coast, and the White Painted Ware sherds he collected at the first two are the published record of those sites^1,2.

At Dhiorios Aloupotrypes the published White Painted material consists of survey sherds in the Ashmolean Museum collection. Gagné reads the pottery as evidence for trade links with Toumba tou Skourou, Kythrea and Lapithos, and she notes a possible Kythrea origin for jug 1953.1122a (Ashmolean Museum 1953.1122a)¹. At Krini Merra, in the Kyrenia range, the survey sherds include White Painted pottery. Gagné considers the material heterogeneous and sparse and argues that Krini Merra had no local White Painted Ware production centre, the vessels probably having been brought from Lapithos and Vounous¹.

Davlos-Pyrgos, in the Phlamoudhi area, appears in an account of archaeological work there, which states that Catling located the site².