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Modern Description: The little fort is reachable by a steep dirt track/narrow footpath that begins just W of the Nea Makri health center. Marked with red arrows, ca. 35 minutes. Boots and long pants. The view is good, but the walls are poorly preserved. The caves at the E extreme have been disturbed by later prospectors. The trail continues, sort of, to the saddle of Agrieliki, though the paint marks disappear in a boulder-filled slope (2021).
In 1926 Professor Soteriades located and excavated a previously unknown fortification on the northernmost of the eastern ridges of Mt. Agrieliki. The site is a rocky cliff (height 209 on Karten von Attika, Bl. XIX) clearly visible from the modern road. The enclosed area has a circumference of about 300 meters. On the northwest, west, south, and southeast the area is fortified with a rubble wall, measured by Soteriades as two meters thick. It is now in a very ruined state, appearing as a broad line of rubble in which it is difficult to measure the original thickness of the wall . On the north, where it is somewhat better preserved, the construction can be seen to be rather more careless than usual among similar Attic fortifications. The wall does not seem to have had towers, and no gateway is now visible. The northeast side, where there are sheer cliffs, was not strengthened with a wall. The interior of the enclosure is very rocky and uneven, and there are no traces of buildings. At the southeast side there is, however, a cleft in the rock which forms a sort of cave. From this cave Soteriades collected a number of sherds which were said by him to include prehistoric, geometric, archaic, and classical examples." Soteriades identified the site with the acropolis of the deme of Marathon. This identification as well as the ceramic evidence for dating the walls has been doubted, and, considering the scarcity of demes with fortified acropoleis, it may well be that this fortification was rather a small temporary outpost in the Marathonian area... (MCCREDIE FORTIFIED MILITARY CAMPS IN ATTICA, 35)
Trismegistos Geo: 37777
DARE: 34546

Info: McCredie, Fortified Military Camps

James R. McCredie, Fortified Military Camps in Attica, Hesperia Supplement 11, 1966,

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