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Modern Description: GOL. On the highest point of the crest is a tower in ashlar masonry with vertically drafted angles, which forms the apex of a small inner perimeter lying under it on the east and enclosing a complex of buildings. Other substantial buildings stood on two successive rocky shelves below the tower on the south. To the NW of the tower, but separated from it by a lane-like depression in the rock, stretches an elevated tongue of rock scaled on the north side by a hewn staircase; near the foot of this stair is a group of cisterns. To the NW this tongue broadens out, and the crest is crowned by the foundations of buildings; the extremity of the crest carries a second tower. The site, which is about 300 m. long, is enclosed by a continuous outer circuit, with its main gate apparently on the north side and with occasional jogs and towers; the circuit wall is 1.50 m. thick on the north, but seems to be as little as 0.70 m. at the east corner, and is built in dry rubble or polygonal masonry with a tendency to courses (a fine stretch at the west end). House foundations can be seen all over the perimeter; There are rock tombs in the cliff near the west end. We noted one or two bits of Roman tile and a late amphora sherd on the site. Otherwise the surface pottery seems again principally of the classical era. Bean and Cook, ABSA 1955
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madnasa
Wikidata ID: Q23705354

Info: Bean 1955

Bean and Cook, The Halicarnassus Peninsula, ABSA 1955

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