The Roman site of Carnuntum was once a flourishing center on the frontiers of the Roman Empire. In its heyday as the capital of the province of Pannonia superior, Carnuntum probably covered an area ...of almost 9 km2. The whole site was divided into a military settlement (castra and canabae legionis) and a civil town (municipium/colonia). Through a large-scale archaeological prospection project, this huge area could be investigated and analyzed in great detail using a wide variety of nondestructive prospection methods. One of the main discoveries of the project was observed in the military settlement, where it was possible to identify a previously unknown military camp, interpreted as the garrison of the governor’s guard, the castra singularium. Through the topographic analysis of the immediate surroundings, the Roman fort was determined to be embedded in a large administrative complex related to the governor’s seat in Carnuntum. This article presents these new discoveries and shows what an important part they formed in the administration of the Roman province of Upper Pannonia.
Large parts of the urban layout of the abandoned Roman town of Bassianae (in present-day Serbia) are still discernible on the surface today due to the deliberate and targeted quarrying of the Roman ...foundations. In 2014, all of the town’s intramural (and some extramural) areas were surveyed using aerial photography, ground-penetrating radar, and magnetometry to analyze the site’s topography and to map remaining buried structures. The surveys showed a strong agreement between the digital surface model derived from the aerial photographs and the geophysical prospection data. However, many structures could only be detected by one method, underlining the benefits of a complementary archaeological prospection approach using multiple methods. This article presents the results of the extensive surveys and their comprehensive integrative interpretation, discussing Bassianae’s ground plan and urban infrastructure. Starting with an overview of this Roman town’s research history, we present the details of the triple prospection approach, followed by the processing, integrative analysis, and interpretation of the acquired data sets. Finally, this newly gained information is contrasted with a plan of Roman Bassianae compiled in 1935.
Gugl Christian. VI- Prospections archéologiques à Carnuntum et dans son hinterland : un aperçu des recherches archéologiques récentes. In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, vol. 45, n°1, 2019. pp. ...199-206.
Since 2010, a Romanian-Austrian research project has investigated the site of ancient Troesmis (near today’s Turcoaia, Tulcea County), focusing on the transformations undergone by settlements at the ...Lower Danube in antiquity. By applying innovative archaeological documentation and evaluation methods (digital documentation of findings, photogrammetry, geophysical prospection and geo-information technology), the site of Troesmis was examined in order to serve as an example for the transformation of the settlement and habitat from the 2nd to the early 13th century A.D. Located in the northwest of Dobrudja, Troesmis occupied a strategic key position on the Roman Danube limes. The Roman-Byzantine settlement was situated on the steep right bank of the Danube, about 15 km to the south of present-day town of Măcin and 4 km to the north of Turcoaia village. The wide-spread area of the ruins that is dominated today by two fortifications extends from the Danube to the east, up to the foothills of Măcin Mountains. This paper intends to give an overview on the 2011-2013 field campaigns that focused on the topographic documentation of the still visible ruins of two fortifications (the so-called eastern fortification, from the Late Roman period, and the western fortification, dated to the middle Byzantine period), as well as of the visible remains on the plateau, which were part of a settlement. In addition to the critical review of the research, an intensive survey over about 178 ha was carried out along with geomagnetic prospection, covering an area of about 48 ha, providing new insights into the site’s settlement structure.
The Carnuntum canabae legionis holds a special place in the category of the civilian suburbs of Roman fortresses. An overall plan of the canabae now exists, thanks to the intensification of ...aerial-archaeological evaluations in recent years in the area of present-day villages of Petronell and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg (Lower Austria, A); its richness in detail makes it unique. The hope of obtaining additional evidence regarding the expansion and chronology of the settlement - as well as the use of municipal zones (such as residential, economic and funerary areas, and open spaces) - was linked to the idea of performing a large-scale surface survey.
Poznoantično višinsko naselje Burgbichl pri Irschnu v dolini Drave na avstrijskem Koroškem je bilo do sedaj raziskano v dveh arheoloških akcijah. Burgbichl leži na križišču ene glavne poti v ...jugovzhodnih Alpah – poti po Dravski dolini – in prečne poti, ki poteka iz Italije čez prelaz Gailpass (Gailbergsattel). Ker hrib kasneje ni bil poseljen, so antične zgradbe izredno dobro ohranjene: na severu obkroža približno hektar veliko poselitveno območje masiven obodni zid. Delno so bili izkopani deli vhoda in obzidja, velika stanovanjska stavba, dve obrtni območji, vodni zbiralnik in zgodnjekrščanska cerkev. V cerkvi s prizidkom na vzhodu sta ugotovljeni dve gradbeni fazi. Pomemben je dokaz o uporabi marmorja na več mestih: za prag, stopnico in okrasitev prezbiterija. V osrednjem delu prezbiterija je jama za relikviarij. Doslej sta bila odkrita dva grobova – eden v grobnici. Pri poznoantičnih najdbah iz 5. in 6. st. gre za tipičen spekter, znan s sočasnih najdišč, z množico grobe keramike, posameznimi uvoženimi kosi keramike, novci in fibulami. Posebnost je koščena pasna spona, okrašena s koncentričnimi krožci s pikami. Na več mestih na hribu so vidni ostanki starejše uporabe prostora, tudi med najdbami je veliko predmetov iz rimskega imperialnega obdobja. Razumevanje teh starejših najdb v povezavi z očitno aktivnostjo na najdišču v obdobju od 1. do 3. st. bo vsekakor med glavnimi cilji prihodnjih raziskav.
Poznoantično višinsko naselje Burgbichl pri Irschnu v dolini Drave na avstrijskem Koroškem je bilo do sedaj raziskano v dveh arheoloških akcijah. Burgbichl leži na križišču ene glavne poti v ...jugovzhodnih Alpah – poti po Dravski dolini – in prečne poti, ki poteka iz Italije čez prelaz Gailpass (Gailbergsattel). Ker hrib kasneje ni bil poseljen, so antične zgradbe izredno dobro ohranjene: na severu obkroža približno hektar veliko poselitveno območje masiven obodni zid. Delno so bili izkopani deli vhoda in obzidja, velika stanovanjska stavba, dve obrtni območji, vodni zbiralnik in zgodnjekrščanska cerkev. V cerkvi s prizidkom na vzhodu sta ugotovljeni dve gradbeni fazi. Pomemben je dokaz o uporabi marmorja na več mestih: za prag, stopnico in okrasitev prezbiterija. V osrednjem delu prezbiterija je jama za relikviarij. Doslej sta bila odkrita dva grobova – eden v grobnici.
Pri poznoantičnih najdbah iz 5. in 6. st. gre za tipičen spekter, znan s sočasnih najdišč, z množico grobe keramike, posameznimi uvoženimi kosi keramike, novci in fibulami. Posebnost je koščena pasna spona, okrašena s koncentričnimi krožci s pikami. Na več mestih na hribu so vidni ostanki starejše uporabe prostora, tudi med najdbami je veliko predmetov iz rimskega imperialnega obdobja. Razumevanje teh starejših najdb v povezavi z očitno aktivnostjo na najdišču v obdobju od 1. do 3. st. bo vsekakor med glavnimi cilji prihodnjih raziskav.
Within the framework of a multidisciplinary research project (2010-2015), the basic features of the topography of the Roman-Byzantine settlement at Troesmis (Turcoaia, Romania) could be clarified. ...Key was the localization of the approximately 16 ha legionary fortress and the approximately 30-35 ha civilian settlement located nearby. On the basis of old maps, remote sensing data, geophysical prospection as well as extensive field surveys, it was not only possible to determine the boundaries of the ancient settlement, but also to register for the first time numerous new sites in the surroundings of Troesmis. The results of the large-scale surveys formed the basis for targeted geomagnetic measurements in the hinterland. The central settlement of Troesmis is embedded in a dense network of roads and rural settlement sites of different types. The water supply was mostly provided by an aqueduct, the course of which could be verified over a length of about 7 km. Furthermore, two temporary Roman military camps could be detected for the first time in the region.
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