The Tumulus of Çakilli was plundered by treasure hunters. A salvage excavation conducted in 1995 yielded a number of sherds in the grave chamber. Tumulus was originally built during the late Bronze Age - Early Iron Age and re-use was during the mid- Iron Age.
See:
- http://www.tayproject.org/TAYmaster.fm$Retrieve?YerlesmeNo=6849&html=masterEngDetail.html&layout=web
- Zulkuf Yilmaz, Cakili tumulusu kurtarma kazisi, VII üze Çalışmaları ve Kurtarma Kazıları Sempozyumu,Ankara 1997, pp. 105-130 [turkish]
- Olivier Henry, Ute Kelp, Tumulus as Sema: Space, Politics, Culture and Religion in the First Millennium BC,Walter de Gruyter 2016, p. 361, fig. 8
- https://kulturenvanteri.com/tr/yer/cakilli-tumulusu/