Everything that’s discovered is always declared scared, belonged to a king or high priest and is always the most amazing thing they’ve dug up since the week before. Reminds me of that Readers’ Digest story of the sacred room they found in the future of a guy worshipping a big square thing which turned out to be a dude in a hotel room.
Dogs in a well sounds more like someone was ticked off and wanted to poison the well or he hated the neighbor’s dogs.
Yep
I guess:
Artifacts and well belonging to poor villager
is not sexy enough