We straightaway know the layout of a large Roman fort inwards Pojejena inwards western Romania, on the Serbiam border. It was a few hectares of province surrounded yesteryear an embankment, a wall too a ditch. Polish scientists determined that using geophysical methods.
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| Site of the Roman fort [Credit: M. Pisz] |
"We know that it was sure as shooting an of import strategic point. It is almost at the entrance to the Iron Gate, a rather long department of the middle Danube, which was non navigable inwards antiquity due to the rocky bottom", says archeologist Emil Jęczmienowski from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw.
He is the leader of the projection aimed at surveying the fort inwards Pojejena. The squad likewise includes other researchers from the University of Warsaw too scientists from the National Museum of Banat inwards Timişoara too the Mountain Banat Museum inwards Resita (Romania). The inquiry was financed yesteryear the National Science Centre.
Due to the location nigh the border, historians are non sure which Roman province governor the garrison inwards Pojejena was nether - Dacia or Moesia. But it is known that it was a fort, non a legion camp, pregnant that it was a smaller military machine facility, inwards which an auxiliary unit of measurement was stationed, perchance alongside a legion unit. In the example of Pojejena, these were in all probability units inwards the strength of 2 cohorts, a amount of no to a greater extent than than a M soldiers, Jęczmienowski believes.
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| Geomagnetic scan [Credit: M. Pisz] |
"In the paradigm nosotros accept obtained, the contours of the fort are clearly visible, which allows for a fairly accurate estimation of its dimensions - nigh iii hectares, which is quite a lot for an auxiliary troops fort", Jęczmienowski says.
He emphasises that the moving-picture exhibit is then clear that it is possible to distinguish item elements of the fortifications: the embankment too its reinforcement, the wall too ditch. But that`s non all. Scientists accept likewise identified a number of structures inside the fort, including the ascendance edifice too in all probability the barracks.
"When nosotros were choosing the gear upwards of methods for our inquiry nosotros expected skillful results, simply what nosotros managed to register exceeded our expectations. The responsiveness of the magnetic method inwards these specific weather condition turned out to endure rattling good, too despite the degradation caused mainly yesteryear the agrotechnical activeness too erosion, the northern business office of the fort is in all probability yet fairly good preserved", says Michał Pisz, PhD pupil at the Faculty of Geology of the University of Warsaw, responsible for the exercise of geophysical methods.
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| Setting upwards the equipment [Credit: M. Pisz] |
As a outcome of the inquiry project, archaeologists likewise determined the course of report of the primary roads from the fort - too perchance likewise of the network of aqueducts that supported this military machine structure. The inquiry likewise helped locate the civilian short town that adjoined the fort.
Researchers are happy to accept been able to explore the fort inwards Pojejena. It is ane of the final such sites available for inquiry inwards this area; many archaeological sites located downstream on both sides of the Danube were flooded equally a outcome of the construction of a dam inwards the 1960s too 1970s.
Author: Szymon Zdziebłowski | Source: PAP - Science inwards Poland [November 10, 2018]
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