ARGOS - 1999

Argos, Kallergi Street (O.T. 159, A. Roussou property). A. Bakourou and G. Tsekes (5th EBA) report on rescue excavation begun in 1999.
An Early Christian house was found in the north of the plot. In the northeast were further probable house walls and, inside, small pieces of red plaster: in the west of this room was a terracotta tiled floor and beneath it a cobbled floor which extended across the greater part of the neighbouring trenches. A well of terracotta cylinders, probably built in the Roman period, was used at least into Early Christian times.
Further south was a destruction level with a cannon ball in a layer of ash. A building of large well-worked limestone blocks lay deep below this. A cobbled road running east-west (8m long, maximum preserved width 6.5m) had a succession of surfaces over a long period of use: a water channel ran along the middle of this road and a smaller spur channel connected the house to it.