Klavdhia-Tremithos: the British Museum excavation of 1899

The British Museum dug at Klavdhia-Tremithos for two weeks in April 1899 under F. B. Welch, with Percy Christian briefly involved¹. The campaign sought Bronze Age objects, particularly Mycenaean material, for the Museum's collections and displays¹. Reeve describes the record as scanty, with little context recorded for the finds, and characterises the work as selective in its attention to decorative pottery and rare or valuable objects, with broken and plain pottery not preserved or recorded¹. Reeve notes that the brief contemporary reports detailed the Mycenaean finds and dismissed other wares as "the usual common pottery"¹. Following Malmgren's calculation, only 54 objects can be attributed to a specific tomb¹. Five surviving objects from the site are in the Leeds collection¹.