 The identification of Knossos with the Bronze Age site is supported by the Roman coins that were scattered over the fields surrounding the pre-excavation site, then a large mound named Kephala Hill, elevation from current sea level.Many of them were inscribed with Knosion or Knos on the obverse and an image of a Minotaur or Labyrinth on the reverse.The coins came from the Roman settlement of "Colonia Julia Nobilis Cnossus", a Roman colony placed just to the north of, and politically including, Kephala.