DESCOPERIRI DE SUPRAFAłĂ ÎN CASTRUL ROMAN DE LA CRÂMPOIA, PE LIMES TRANSALUTANUS
FIELD SAMPLING FINDS IN THE ROMAN CAMP AT CRÂMPOIA, ON LIMES TRANSALUTANUS

Summary/Abstract: In the paper are presented five pieces discovered in 1964 after some field sampling researches in the area of the Roman camp at Crâmpoia, know in literature of speciality with its old name – Ghioca: a stone and a grit stone used for sharpening, a tulbular handle made of horny substance, a knife made of iron, a spearhead with three edges and a hinge-fibula made of bronze. These documents had been unedited for a long time. They were kept in the storage room of the Arges County Museum in Pitesti. The fact that they come from Ghioca-Crâmpoia is undoubtful because the place and the year of the discovery are marked with black Chinese ink directly on pieces and they are also mentioned in the inventory register of the archaeological collection of the museum. The knife (fig. 1/4; 2/4) belongs to a common type, largely spread in Dacia. The closest analogies are found at Câmpulung-“Jidova”, Copăceni and BistreŃ. The big dimension of this knife from Crâmpoia could sugest that it had also been used as weapon, maybe as clunaculum. The iron spearhead having a pyramidal shape with three equal edges (fig. 1/5; 2/5; 3) has numerous analogies in the South of Dacia (Câmpulung-“Jidova” RacoviŃa-Praetorium II, Bumbesti Jiu-“Gară”, Celei, Romula, Slăveni) and inter-Carpathians Dacia (Inlăceni, Gilău, Porolissum). This kind of weapons was discovered also in the free Dacians’ Militari-Chilia cultural milieu from Muntenia (Mătăsaru). The hinged fibula (Scharnierfibel) from Crâmpoia (fig. 1/6; 2/6) belongs to the late variant of the Alésia type. Because of the spreading of this prevalent type in the Danubian zones of the empire, the term of “Danubian hinged fibula” (Donauländische Scharnierfibel) was proposed in literature. Numerous analogies of the fibula published here (Cocis 14 type) were discovered especially in military sites (Gilău, Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa, Porolissum, Micia, Apulum, Gherla, Slimnic, Căseiu, Potaissa, Sânpaul, Mârsani, Mehadia, Romula, Castra Traiana, Arutela, Drobeta, Ostrovul Corbului, Gârla Mare, Sucidava, Bumbesti Jiu-“Vârtop”, Bumbesti Jiu-“Gară”, Strejestii de Jos), but also in the space of the free Dacians from Muntenia Plain (Mătăsaru and Străulesti) – fig. 4. From all the materials from Crâmpoia published here, fibula is the most sensitive chronological indicatory, dating from the period between the second half of the 2nd century and the first decades of the 3rd century A.D.

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