Adami

A little over a kilometre southwest of the village of Adami in Argolida, a low hilltop is ringed by the scattered remains of a dry-stone fortification. Nothing is known of its builders or its purpose, and what survives is no more than piles of rough stones tracing the hill's summit. The enclosed area is small, under 1,500 square metres, and no trace of a tower remains. Such un-mortared hilltop defences are common across the inland hills of Argolid and Corinthia, and scholars usually date them either to the rule of Leo Sgouros, around the turn of the thirteenth century, or to the first decade of that century, when Othon de La Roche, lord of Athens, was pressing his authority over the region. This particular ruin may belong to that group, but it could equally be older, perhaps from the seventh century and the era of Slavic settlement or pirate raids. An ancient origin seems unlikely, though certainty is impossible.