TOWER OF BRAURON - 2002

General Information

Record ID

2283

Activity Date

2002

Chronologies

Antiquity - Classical - Roman

Key-words

Agricultural facility - Peribolos - Tomb - Sculpture - Production/extraction site - Road system/waterway

Type of Operation

Survey

Institution

Β' Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων (Β' ΕΠΚΑ)

Localisation

Toponym
Brauron

Αρχαιολογικό Κτηματολόγιο

Archaeological sites :
Κήποι, Παλιά Βραώνα και Πούσι-Καλογέρι, Βραυρώνα, Αττική
Πύργος Βραυρώνας, Αττική
Protected zones :
Πύργος Βραυρώνας, Γκούρι Μπίμ, Ερασινός, Ζώνη Α

Linked Record

2002

Report

The Tower of Brauron. O. Kakavogianni (Β’ ΕΠΚΑ) reports on survey in the area of the tower.

Opposite the tower, to the north of the Erasinos, the area is crossed by ancient roads (Site 6), scattered remains of building materials, and Late Classical pottery. To the east of the tower, ancient tombs were found on the west and north slopes of the hill on which the chapel of Ag. Dimitrios (Site 7) is located. At the Patitiria site (Site 8), to the northeast of Ag. Dimitrios, over the Erasinos, were extensive Early Classical remains, perhaps of a farmhouse.

Around 50m west of Markopoulou-Vraonas Avenue, at a modern spring (Kroi Sklia) at the crossing of the farm roads to Lexana and the tower of Brauron, was a wall of limestone blocks. Part of a small marble statue of Aphrodite and marble lekanis with a relief dolphin, now in the Brauron Museum, were reported to have come from here (perhaps from a small roadside shrine to Aphrodite).

Slightly further south, on the west slope of the Karambamba hill, a large Roman structure is probably a farm house.

At the Kipoi site is a small quarry. In the northwest of the plain of Brauron, on farm roads which lead to Spata, walls of farmhouses and funerary periboloi are preserved. At the south side of the plain, where it meets the Sorti valley, were surface remains of ancient farm houses, and at the slope of the hill a quarry.

On the coast, at the north creek formed by the Vromopousi peninsula, are remains of prehistoric settlement, with ancient remains also reported on the small islets opposite.

Author

Robert PITT

Bibliographic reference(s)

AD 56-59 (2001-2004) Chr., 337-339.