the stone from the Lion's plinth had been used in a dam in or after the Roman period) to build the modern bridge. They were followed by British soldiers a few years later in 1916, during World War I, who also discovered significant parts of the monument while building fortifications at the bridge. An attempt was made to remove parts of the monument but this was not enacted due to nearby combat activity

In the early 1930s, during works for draining part of Lake Kerkini