The small port of Kucukcekmece Lake was discovered in 2009 within the ruins of late Ottoman farm houses. it had two piers made of regularly cut stones and rubble - spolia, with some of the larger stone blocks fixed with iron clamps (dating to the Roman Period).
- Hakan Oniz, Sengul Aydingun, Emre Guldogan, Archaeological Excavations at Istanbul's Lake Kucukcekmece-2010 in Soma 2011: Proceedings of the 15th Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Held at the University of Catania, March 3–5th, 2011, BAR International Series 2695 (I)2015, p. 407- 409 - https://www.academia.edu/11504531
- Haldun Aydingun, Hittite Traces in Istanbul, in: The Political Geography of Western Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age, Ivo Hajnal, Eberhard Zangger and Jorrit Kelder (editors) Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 2021, https://www.academia.edu/59803791/Hittite_Traces_in_Istanbul?email_work_card=view-paper