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Abstract: The excavations took place between 15.08. – 15.10.2001. Three secoluluitions (S1, S2 and S3) were drawn on each side of the road Zimbor – Cuzãplac. The main purpose was the identification of the roman fort which it was located somewhere in this area. Following the excavations, buildings belonging to the settlements from Bronze Age, Roman period and one dated in the 8th century AD were discovered. We cannot forward any hypothesis about the profile of the Bronze Age settlements and the one dated in the 8th century AD. On the opposite a civilian type can be determined for the Roman settlement. Two main phases of inhabitancy were identified: a) wooden buildings; b) stone buildings. The traces of wooden buildings were found at the western end of secoluluition S2 (Pl. V) and in secoluluition S3 (Pl. VIII, IX). These traces suggest a rectangular building, probably a hut. To the same wooden phase belong the post pits found at the eastern end of the secoluluition S2 (Pl. VI) the garbage pits from the secoluluition S3 (Pl. IX). The archaeological material from this context consists of ordinary pottery fragments. To the secoluluiond phase, of stone, belongs a monumental stone building found in two of the secoluluitions. The material of this phase consists of stamped tiles (NMO = Numeri Maurorum Optatianensium), pottery, one lamp, glass fragments, one coin, a hair-pin made of bone, one piece of bronze and a needle (Pl. XI - XIII-3,4). The coin was issued for Philip I. We do not believe that these traces belong to the Roman fort but more possible to the nearby vicus or another rural site from the close proximity of a fort. |
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