Agora Deposit: J 1:18
Title:   Late Archaic Pottery Concentration
Supervisor:   Brian Martens
Description:   This deep stratum (ca. 030m) is delayed Persian destruction cleanup deposited in the 470s B.C. it contains about one generation's worth of pottery, almost exclusively dating between about 500-470 B.C.
The stratum abutted E-W polygonal Wall 8 and was laid down for Post-Persian renovations of the building. The dump of pottery raised the floor level of the building; atop J 1:18 was a layer of crushed bedrock and a renewed floor surface.
The deposit joins fill taken in 2013 that runs under the scarp of Wall G.
Addendum 2022: The collapse of Wall G’ allowed further work on deposit J 1:18 in the 2022 season.
Bibliography:   Hesperia 89 (2020), p. 625 (noted).
Date:   29 June-19 July 2017
12–15 July 2022
Section:   ΒΖ
Grid:   J/12,14-1/16,18
    J/14,15-1/17,18
Elevation:   52.112-51.803m.
Masl:   51.803-52.112m.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 89 (2020)
Object: B 2260
Object: W 56