A Chance Ruin at Alea

Ok, so it wasn't really a chance.  I knew it was there--it was noted as Level 4--and Randall saw the sign for the archaeological site.  I just really hadn't planned that we would stop there, yet.  Still, this little gem, a Temple to Athena Alea, was nestled between the houses and a church, a little unkempt, but easy enough to understand.  Foundation, columns, stairs(!), altar and plenty of spare parts.



What was more of interest was the fact that the entire site was surrounded by a fence likely not so much to keep visitors regulated (you can call the neighboring town's archaeological museum to ask someone to open it) as to keep the neighbors from encroaching on the land and removing the "rocks".

Here are some spare parts that are well outside the site fence walls, and I think I saw a segment of marble column which had been hollowed out and turned into a flower pot.  I'll leave this to the archaeologists to negotiate when and if reconstruction/preservation commences.