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Structure · Çakmaktepe

Circular Special / Communal Building

The circular special or communal building is a major Çakmaktepe public-building anchor: a roughly 16 m single-room circular building with a bedrock-cut floor and controlled filling.

Site: Çakmaktepe
Building 10 at Çakmaktepe — a circular structure with its floor cut into the bedrock and postholes across the interior, seen from above.

Building 10 at Çakmaktepe — a circular structure with its floor cut into the bedrock and postholes across the interior, seen from above.

Ödüllü, Cakmaktepe building 10, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

What's actually there

Official reporting describes a large circular building built by carving the floor into bedrock, with postholes, bench-related features, a southern quadrangular feature, nearby worked pillar fragments, and carefully placed fill stones.

What to notice

Roughly 16 m in diameter. Single-room circular structure. Floor carved into bedrock in relation to the hilltop topography. Postholes are present in the floor. Bench wall or bench-related area is reported. A southern quadrangular feature of about 1.5 x 1.5 m is reported beside the bench wall. Fragments of well-worked pillars were found nearby. Controlled or careful backfilling is indicated by rows of placed stones.

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Last reviewed 21 July 2026. Something wrong?