A 'new' Roman Temporary Camp in Parâng Mountains
A 'new' Roman Temporary Camp in Parâng Mountains

Summary/Abstract: A new Roman camp was documented – mainly for its topographical features – far away from any knowncamp from Şureanu Mountains. It has a typical size of the encampments from around SarmizegetusaRegia, 5 hectares, as no one reaches a full-size legionary camp. Having tituli and being made of two partsseparated by a palisade, it finds also analogies in the region (as Comărnicel 1). What is really outstandingat the encampment from Cracul Găurilor is the steep slope on which it is standing with more than half ofits surface.Its location raises the problem of new routes driving to the Dacian capital. One of them could have itsdeparture point at the lower end of the Jiu Gorges, at the Vârtop fort. Another – less plausible but stillpossible – would start on the Middle Olt River, at Buridava.

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