Cercetări preventive la Valul lui Traian de Sus (Gradiște-Coștangalia, r-nul Cimișlia) în anul 2019
Preventive research at the Upper Trajan’s Wall (Gradiște-Coștangalia, Cimișlia District) in 2019

Summary/Abstract: The linear fortification Upper Trajan’s Wall is one of the most important archaeological monuments on the territory of the Republic of Moldova. Unlike other representative archaeological sites, this imposing earth-work frotification, with a length of about 120 km, which crosses the entire Prut-Dniester area, from Leova, on the Prut River, to Copanca, on the Dniester River, is still insufficiently researched and known. In September 2019, on the occasion of the M3 road construction (Porumbrei-Cimișlia section), which was to intersect the Upper Trajan’s Wall on the sector between the villages of Gradiște and Coștangalia, Cimișlia district), the joint team of the National Agency for Archaeology and of the Moldova State University conducted preventive archaeological researches. The obtained results are able to complete or even correct the older information, but without having discovered materials regarding the dating of this important linear fortification, the problem to be solved in the future.

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