Kuşaklı ancient Sarissa is located 4 km west of Başören village in Sivas Province. The written sources in Hattusa allocate Sarissa in the "Upper Land" of Hatti. Hittite town was fortified. There were gates at the four corners of walls.At tje NW gate was pool or dam dates to 1530 BC. In the south-west part of the town was sanctuary.
Sources:
- S. Mazzoni, A. D'Agostino & V. Orsi, New researches in the Hittite heartland: the Italian archaeological survey at Uşaklı/Kuşaklı Höyük (Yozgat - Central Anatolian Plateau), Antiquity vol. 84,September 2010 - http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/dagostino325/
- O. R. Gurney, The Hittite names of Kerkenes Dağ and Kuşaklı Höyük. Anatolian Studies 45, 1995, pp. 69-71.
- H. H. von der Osten, Explorations in Hittite Asia Minor 1927-1928 (Oriental Institute Publications 6). Chicago: The University of Chicago Press 1929
- Gary Beckman, Constructing Sacred Space in Hittite Anatolia, in: Heaven on Earth: Temples, Ritual, and Cosmic Symbolism in the Ancient World eds.Deena Ragavan, OIS 9, Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 2013, pp. 153-173
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060820092354/http://cat.une.edu.au/page/kusakli