Following the initial excavations in the quarry field work stopped until 1883.

The initial excavation revealed that the north side was fairly intact.

Further, physical evidence from the initial excavations is absent or has been lost.

More than 20,000 were discovered in the initial scientific excavations during the 1920s and 1930s, and over four times as many have been found since.

Findings from the initial excavations are set to feed in to the regeneration strategy for the area.

It has been a center of Aegean art and archaeology even before its initial excavation.

In the initial excavation two large hearths were found and many small ones as well.

Since the initial excavation, enough space had been cleared there for several dragons to land.

The development did not progress any further than the initial excavation for five floors of planned underground car park.

During initial excavation, the wall remains were uncovered in 1897-98.