E 14:11.3: Dump Fill Associated with Great Drain Construction

Dumped fillings probably to be associated with the construction of the Great Drain in this area. Green fill under North Building ... Ca. 400 B.C ... Dumped fillings probably to be associated with the construction of the Great Drain in this area. Green fill under North Building.

B 19:12: Great Drain South

Ca. 73-81/Drain. Fillings associated with the construction of the Great Drain South, especially the fill thrown in behind the east wall of the drain at the time of its building. Cf. A 20-21:1 and B 19:7 ... Ca. 425-400 B.C ... Ca. 73-81/Drain. Fillings associated with the construction of the Great Drain South, especially the fill thrown in behind the east wall of the drain at the time of its building.

H 12:1: Fill of Early West Branch of Great Drain=Middle Drain

Filling of Middle Drain (Tr. H+F in Section Ζ). Sand and gravel filling of the old course of the west branch of the Great Drain, a large (ca. 1.00m. deep and 1.30m. wide) underground channel in the area ... 150-100 B.C.

C 15:2: Fill over and in Manhole of South West Drain

Filling over and in manhole of South West Drain. Coins: 27 April 1948 # 73-#76 ΠΠ-706 and ΠΠ-707 from the environs of the "manhole" down to west Great Drain packing ... To mid-3rd c. A.D.

E 14:11: Great Drain South, Associated with Southwest and North Buildings

Fillings associated with Southwest and North Buildings (78-99/ΙΣΤ-ΚΘ) and early walls to west of Great Drain. pottery p. 1189, vol VII ... Subdivisions: .1=Filling over bedrock. .2=Fillings behind retaining ... Various levels and dates

B 19:15: Fill in House N Room 4

House N, Room 4: Fillings in and over floors (Layers 7 and 8). Lower level probably antedating the building of the Great Drain in this area; the upper level apparently contemporary with remodeling of the ... 425-400 B.C.

A-B 19-20:2: Great Drain South in Southern Part of the Area West of the Areopagus

Fillings to either side of the Great Drain, in the southern part of the area west of the Areopagus; various levels, late 6th. and early 5th c. B.C. to Sullan destruction. Coins: 26 July 1946 #1-#2 30 July ... Late 6th. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D.

C 18:14.1: Sand fill north end, under tiles

Great Drain north end, filling under tiles (55-58). Only the finds from 55-58/* are recorded here (as found in the notebooks) although the deposit notebook shows additional finds from the entire sand fill ... 3rd-2nd c. B.C ... Great Drain north end, filling under tiles (55-58). Only the finds from 55-58/* are recorded here (as found in the notebooks) although the deposit notebook shows additional finds from the entire sand fill under the Great Drain as included in this deposit.

C 18:11: Early Drain Channel Pit

Ostrakon deposit, sand fill in a shallow channel in bedrock at the bottom of the Great Drain in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of Nymphs. This group of ostraka may well come from a single ... Ca. 490-480 B.C ... Ostrakon deposit, sand fill in a shallow channel in bedrock at the bottom of the Great Drain in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of Nymphs. This group of ostraka may well come from a single ostrakophoria, but there is always the possibility that the water of the drain may have carried down earlier or later pieces.

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H 13:5: Bedrock cutting under Road 6 by Stoa Pier 1

This cutting was filled in at the time Road 6 was laid. Homogeneous dumped fill. This deposit represents fill which was brought in at the time Road 6 at the west end of the Middle Stoa was laid to fill ... Ca. 480 B.C ... This cutting was filled in at the time Road 6 was laid. Homogeneous dumped fill. This deposit represents fill which was brought in at the time Road 6 at the west end of the Middle Stoa was laid to fill in a deep gully which had formed in the earlier road, Road 7. It remains uncertain whether the gully was natural or whether it was partially manmade as a southern continuation of the Great Drain which was never finished.

C 17:1: Fills

Great Drain fills, including "packing over elliptical tiles" and "gravel fills". The central drain area covered by the sections below; other sections are with other deposits. Coins: 9 May 1947 #2-#5 16 ... 1st c. A.D.

B 19:13: Well

Dug bedrock filling in a well of unusually large diameter (1.35m.), possibly the original source of water for a factory for making terracotta figurines (water for the workshop with waterproofed floor and ... 4th. c. B.C ... Dug bedrock filling in a well of unusually large diameter (1.35m.), possibly the original source of water for a factory for making terracotta figurines (water for the workshop with waterproofed floor and basin, and pottery basin set into the ground, at junction of Great Drain and Post Sullan drain). ... Abandoned at 9.00m. because of threatened collapse of bedrock. Great caves and caverns below surface where soft stereo had fallen.Well fill not reached ... ; topographical considerations however indicate that the well was probably not filled in before Roman times; the context is thus irrelevant for the Classical period.

B 20:7: Well

Grid notation in error as 99/ΚΑ sometimes. A well (diameter 1.20m; diameter inside tiles at bottom 0.85m) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, at the bottom of the valley, about 10.00m. east of ... 3rd. c. B.C ... Grid notation in error as 99/ΚΑ sometimes. A well (diameter 1.20m; diameter inside tiles at bottom 0.85m) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus, at the bottom of the valley, about 10.00m. east of the Great Drain. ... Subdivisions: .1=Fills 1, 2, 3 .2=Fills 4, 5 .3=Fill 6, POU

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D 16:11: Casting pit

Laura Gawlinski ... Bronze foundry north of bridge on Piraeus street, east of Great Drain. Keyhole-shaped bronze casting pit, cut into bedrock. 2016: Continuation of the excavation of a rectangular pit with foundry debris, ... Late 6th-early 5th c. B.C. (Late Archaic/ Early Classical) ... Bronze foundry north of bridge on Piraeus street, east of Great Drain. Keyhole-shaped bronze casting pit, cut into bedrock. 2016: Continuation of the excavation of a rectangular pit with foundry debris, first excavated in 1949. ... Pit cut into bedrock at west and north; fill continues beneath later wall (“Wall A”) at east. ... No catalogued finds in 2016.