Hoepken, Constanze, Panczel, Szilamer-Peter, Szabo, Mate, Szabo, Andras, Fiedler, Manuel, Doehner, Gregor and Kosza, Antal (2016). Watch Towers on the Dacian Eastern Part of the Limes between Brancovenesti and Calugareni (jud. Mures/RO). Archaol. Korrespondenzbl., 46 (2). S. 241 - 255. MAINZ: ROMISCH-GERMANISCHES ZENTRALMUSEUM. ISSN 0342-734X

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Abstract

The eastern Limes of Dacia in today's department Mures at the western foot of the eastern Carpathians consists of a line of auxiliary castles - Brancovenesti, Calugareni und Sarateni - which are connected by a limes road. To the East in front of them stood a row of watch towers. Numerous archaeological surveys were undertaken in the limes secion between the Gurghiu valley and the castle Calugareni in order to verify the location of known and new watch towers; as a result four watch towers could be identified as Roman: lbanesti/Cetatuia Mica (Libanfalva/Kisvar), Chiheru de Jos/Dealul Pogor (Alsokoher/Pogor-hegy), Eremitu/Dealul Tompa (Nyaradremete/Tompa-teto) and Eremitu/Cetatea Sacadat (Nyaradremete/Szakadat vara). All watch towers were enclosed by a fortification consisting of rempart and ditch. The position of the tower was not always central, in two cases the tower was built in the corner. This enlarged the interior space and facilitated its use. The watch towers evidently performed different functions as not all of them were used to contact the castles directly. Some of them functioned rather as interfaces between other towers and castles and possibly also supplied the watch towers.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Hoepken, ConstanzeUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Panczel, Szilamer-PeterUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Szabo, MateUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Szabo, AndrasUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Fiedler, ManuelUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Doehner, GregorUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Kosza, AntalUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-289377
Journal or Publication Title: Archaol. Korrespondenzbl.
Volume: 46
Number: 2
Page Range: S. 241 - 255
Date: 2016
Publisher: ROMISCH-GERMANISCHES ZENTRALMUSEUM
Place of Publication: MAINZ
ISSN: 0342-734X
Language: German
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
ArchaeologyMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/28937

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