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what now remaineth here? What sacred trophy marks the hallow'd ground Recording freedom's smile and Asia's tear? Byron, Childe Harold, II, 90 > J ILLIAM Dinsmoor has always emphasized the importance of the correlation of Greek archaeology with history. This basic idea permeates his writings but finds its fullest expression in the article which he contributed to the volume Studies in the History of Culture (presented to Waldo G. Leland, 1942). On the occasion of his 80th birthday I present some archaeological evidence bearing on the Battle of Marathon. In the northeastern part of the plain of Marathon, about midway between the shore and the foot of Mt. Stavrokoraki and only a few hundred meters from the edge of the Great Marsh, stands the little chapel of the Panagia Mesosporitissa (P1. 31,a), so called because its festival falls about in the middle of the sowing season, November 21st. A short distance in front of the chapel is an old well whose mouth is formed by a large block of white marble (P1. 31,b), and just beyond this are the ruins of a mediaeval tower built of large re-used ancient blocks, conspicuous among which are a large Ionic capital measuring 1.35 meters across the volutes and two large column drums about 0.80 meters in diameter (PI. 31,c-e, 32). These remains of antiquity have always been visible, and the first published notice of them is that of W. M. Leake who, although he did not see them himself on his visits to Marathon, refers to them on the strength of a report from a certain W. Bankes.' Subsequently they were described, with some variations in detail, by Vischer, Lolling, Eschenburg and Milchhoefer, and they are briefly noted by Frazer and Hitzig-Bluemner.2 Since the end of the nineteenth century, however, they have dropped out of the literature and do not appear in the descriptions of the remains of antiquity 1

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