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Report of Tentative Excavations on the Demarch's Field, Melos

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

J. W. Crowfoot
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These excavations began on Thursday, 13th May, in the afternoon: on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, seven men were engaged upon them, but on Monday five more were employed. On Tuesday, at midday, they were brought to an abrupt close by a peremptory telegram from the General Ephor in Athens, forbidding all tentative excavation in Melos.

This field was partially excavated last year by Mr. Bosanquet, and the results of his work are described in the Annual for 1895–6: it was hoped that excavations continued this year under easier conditions would throw fresh light upon the system of walls connected with the city gate, and any public buildings which might have been situated there.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 3 , November 1897 , pp. 31 - 34
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1897

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page 34 note * Inside this tank the soil was of a different character from that turned up elsewhere: it was yellow in colour, with fragments of red and white chalk; the yellow soil was soft, and might have been used as fuller's earth.