Oscar Broneer was a prominent archaeologist who spent his life in Corinth, adopted Ancient Corinth as his home and is even buried in the village cemetery. He wrote:

 

“Wednesday May 24, 1933
109 men, 71 in Agora SE
295 and 104 cars for a total of 399 cars (of dumped earth)
Work continued in Vlachos field in middle section west of circular base where we destroyed walls and began defining larger circle of base. Also continued at east and where we are 
cutting away modern road. The road was removed toward the east close to the barn in order to leave room for us to clear the southeast corner of the building.”

The number of men employed is huge, 109 men in this case. The number of cars refers to the railroad cars full of earth that were dumped during every single day and removed from the archaeological area in order to reveal the ancient buildings. During the day mentioned here it was 399 cars of earth.