Agora Deposit: J 5:1
Title:   Crossroads Well
Category:   Well
Description:   Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below.
Contents:   Coins:
10 July 1971 #861
n.d. 1971 #867
The bags from J 5:1 are notable for a high number of dog bones, including several skulls. They are heavily stained from metal exposure (the Bone bags were analyzed by Michael MacKinnon).
Notes:   Objects that are listed in the notebooks as "redigging" upper or middle levels, etc., are not assigned to subdivisions because their level is uncertain; they appear only in the parent J 5:1.
Subdivisions:
.1=Byzantine fill
.2=Upper accumulation
.3=POU
.4=Lower accumulation and POU
Bibliography:   Hesperia 91 (2022), p. 134, n. 2.
    Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), p. 106, n. 10.
    Hesperia 83 (2014), p. 200, table 2.
    Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375.
    Agora XXIX, p. 458.
    Agora XXVIII, p. 243.
    Agora XXXIII, p. 363.
Date:   14 June-27 July 1971
Section:   ΒΓ
Grid:   J/10-5/5
Elevation:   -13.4m.
Masl:   -13.4m.
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