Roman Sites and Discoveries around Potaissa (VII). New data and clarifications regarding the Viișoara commune territory
Roman Sites and Discoveries around Potaissa (VII). New data and clarifications regarding the Viișoara commune territory

Summary/Abstract: In AD 106, Dacia became a Roman province. Potaissa (Turda, Cluj County) was one of the first settlements recorded in the new province from its first existing years. The settlement gradually developed over the course of the first decades after the province’s establishment, growing faster after the quartering of V Macedonica there in the context of the Marcomannic Wars, turning by late 2nd century AD into one of the main urban centres of Dacia. For this reason, Potaissa and the legionary fortress of V Macedonica have been of particular interest among the researchers. The rapid growth of Potaissa once with AD 168 represented a catalyst for the rest of the region, many of the smaller settlements in the area evolving especially during the last decades of the 2nd century and in the 3rd century AD. These rural settlements, actively involved in the supply of agricultural products, raw materials and certain service types were key for the well functioning of the military unit and the civil settlement at Potaissa. Nonetheless, despite their high number and importance during Antiquity, many of the settlements around Potaissa are presently much less investigated. Most lack data concerning their location, sizes and basic inventory. In order to clarify, at least in part, the situation of these sites, a series of investigations have been performed over the most recent years, which both resumed data from previous literature and accomplished new field surveys, documented with modern tools. Since 2019, their results have been published in a series of articles, of which the present study, which discusses the sites from the Viișoara commune territory, forms part.

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