A non-destructive survey of the roman auxiliary fort and vicus in Pojejena (Caraș-Severin county, Romania) – a preliminary report Cover Image

A non-destructive survey of the roman auxiliary fort and vicus in Pojejena (Caraș-Severin county, Romania) – a preliminary report
A non-destructive survey of the roman auxiliary fort and vicus in Pojejena (Caraș-Severin county, Romania) – a preliminary report

Author(s): Emil Jęczmienowski
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Local History / Microhistory, Ancient World
Published by: Editura Mega Print SRL
Keywords: Roman limes; vicus; Danube; Moesia Superior; Dacia;

Summary/Abstract: The preliminary report on Pojejena Romanian-Polish researching projectaims to show some of the preliminary results and conclusions of the field researches we havelead the last years at Pojejena. We have realized there some surveys together with geophysicalscanning and intrusive methods by executing a short well to verify the previous years’ results.We have to note that in 1970 Romanian researchers dug at Pojejena, but no other systematicarcheological researches has been made there after till our team comes at. We have localizedconcentrations of material in the field to a smaller or larger distance from the Roman camp, inthe beginning of work. The whole available area inside and outside the Roman camp wasinvestigated with the help of geophysical scanning methods; so we have been allowed toidentify buildings inside the fortification and also o previous phase of the camp built in woodand ground, much smaller than the stone camp. Well was executed near the eastern portalthrough intervallum and horreum’s corner and came to fulfill the data on the camp history. Thepresent report shows the preliminary result of the geophysical scanning, the results of the wellbeing only generally presented. They will be presented in a more extended study on thisfortification.

  • Issue Year: 1/2019
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 145-157
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English, Romanian