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Low-land Dry-Stone Field Shelter

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Low-land Dry-Stone Field Shelter

Name: Low-land Dry-Stone Field Shelter
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Location: Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Χανίων, Greece

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1. View of Kalyves – View of Georgioupoli loop from Georgioupoli

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2. Almyrida Seafront Promenade – Lake Kournas loop from Αlmyrida

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3. View of Georgioupoli – Stone Shrine of Fourni loop from Kavros

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Alan McWilliams

August 13, 2025

Hidden in the trees here is a small round dry-stone building. At first glance, it looks like a miniature mitató, it is a low-land field shelter, part of the everyday agricultural landscape rather than the high-mountain pastoral world. The building is too small and too low to be a mitató. Inside, there is just enough space for a person to crouch, with a stone “bench” along one side and no room for cheese-making or sleeping. The roof was never a corbelled stone dome; instead, it was probably a simple flat or lightly arched covering that has now collapsed. The stones are rough, mixed field stones rather than the carefully selected flat plates used in mountain mitáta. Its location also tells a story. It stands in lowland woodland only a few kilometres from the villages, far below the summer grazing zones where mitáta are found. Structures like this were used as temporary shelters and storage spaces for tools, firewood, or animal feed during seasonal work in the fields and forests.

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Location: Περιφερειακή Ενότητα Χανίων, Greece

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