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[Agora Deposit] I 10:1: Well West of the Eponymous Heroes Monument

Well west of the Eponymous Heroes monument. The shaft was of irregular width (ca. 0.81m where the full circle was first preserved), sunk in soft bedrock clay much of which had collapsed around the top ... Ca. 600-550 B.C ... Well west of the Eponymous Heroes monument. The shaft was of irregular width (ca. 0.81m where the full circle was first preserved), sunk in soft bedrock clay much of which had collapsed around the top of the shaft and large masses of which had fallen from the sides of the shaft. ... Excavation terminated at a depth of 4.25m. due to collapse of rock in the well.

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[Agora Deposit] O 7:2: Small Chamber Tomb

Mycenaean Chamber Tomb. Only the bottom 0.10 to 0.20m of the chamber was preserved along with the partial skeletal remains of two or three occupants. The plan revealed a square chamber (1.80m by 1.80m), ... Myc. III A 1:2 (14th c.) ... The plan revealed a square chamber (1.80m by 1.80m), entered by a sloping dromos (0.90m wide and preserved to a length of 2.5m) from the northeast. ... Apparently much of the tomb had been cut away by workmen who were engaged in digging the foundations for a large monument in the 4th c. B.C. and once they had struck the skeletons reverence for the dead induced them to shift the monument westward by its own width.