Cincşor Castle

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Cincşor Castle
limes Dacian Limes
section A / VIII / 44
Dating (occupancy) not safe
Type Cohort fort
unit A) unknown
B) Cohors II Flavia Bessorum
size unexplained
Construction A) Wood-earth camp (?)
B) Stone fort
State of preservation invisible ground monument
place Cincşor
Geographical location 45 ° 50 '33.1 "  N , 24 ° 51' 59.8"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 50 '33.1 "  N , 24 ° 51' 59.8"  E
height 540  m
Previous Fort Hoghiz
A / VIII / 43 (east-northeast)
Subsequently Feldioara Fort
A / VIII / 45 (west)
The Dacian Limites

Fort Cincşor was a Roman auxiliary troop camp in the municipality of Cincşor (Kleinschenk) , Braşov district in the Romanian region of Transylvania .

location

The relics of the Cincşor cohort fort are located around two kilometers east of the Cincşor community and a good one kilometer north of the Olt River in the "Castle Town" corridor. In ancient times it probably had the task of monitoring goods traffic on the Olt and the Cincu Pass to the north. In today's landscape nothing can be seen of the Roman military camp.

Archaeological evidence

During the archaeological excavations of 1974/1975 and 1979 to 1992, during which only small excavation cuts were made to determine the location of the fort, two construction phases could be differentiated.

It is possible that there was initially a wood and earth warehouse, which was later replaced by a stone fort. The stone fort had a rectangular floor plan, the dimensions could not be determined. A defensive wall and four trenches were found on the west side of the stone fort. Due to the small amount of finds, the dating is uncertain, but epigraphic finds have identified the Cohors II Flavia Bessorum as the parent unit.

A grave inscription for a Roman military official, L. Carvilius Rusticinus, was discovered near the Castra.

Female parade mask found near the fort (2019).

In 1986 an excavator discovered a bronze parade mask near the fort, in the area of ​​the reservoir. The mask shows a woman's head. It is 24.5 cm high, 17 cm wide and 14.5 cm deep. It dates from the 2nd century AD.

Lost property and monument protection

The excavation finds are in the Muzeul Țării Făgăraşului in Făgăraş (Fogarasch) and in the Muzeul Județean Braşov in Braşov (Kronstadt) .

The entire archaeological site and are in particular the castle according to the adopted in 2001 Law no. 422/2001 as historical monuments under protection and are using the LMI Code BV-IsA-11266 in the national list of historic monuments ( Lista Monumentelor istorice ) entered . Responsible is the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerul Culturii și Patrimoniului Na ,ional) , in particular the General Directorate for National Cultural Heritage, the Department of Fine Arts and the National Commission for Historical Monuments and other institutions subordinate to the Ministry. Unauthorized excavations and the export of ancient objects are prohibited in Romania.

See also

literature

  • Paul-Cristian Damian, Ovidiu Țentea, Ioan-Carol Opriș, Florian Matei-Popescu, Vitalie Bîrcă and, Dan Ștefan: Raport științific privind derularea proiectului. Strategii defensive și politici transfrontaliere. Integrarea spațiului Dunării de Jos în civilizația romană (STRATEG). Faza I. Evaluarea contextului patrimonial și teoretizarea modelului cognitiv și tehnologic al cercetării 1 octombrie-31 decembrie 2007 . Pp. 42-47, digitized .
  • Nicolae Gudea : The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, p. 67f., ( Digitized version ).
  • Nicolae Gudea: The Lower Moesian Danube Limes and the defense of the Moesian north and west coast of the Black Sea . Special print from the yearbook of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Maiz , 52nd year 2005, p. 497.
  • Kurt Horedt: The southern Transylvanian Limes route Dacia . In: Dorothea Haupt and Heinz Günter Horn (Red.): Studies on the military borders of Rome. Lectures of the 10th international Limes Congress in the Germania inferior . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1977, ISBN 3-7927-0270-3 , pp. 331–338.
  • Felix Marcu: The Internal Planning of Roman Forts of Dacia . (= Bibliotheca Mvsei Napocensis XXX), Mega Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca 2009, ISBN 978-606-543-058-7 , pp. 198f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Route / section / fort number (based on Nicolae Gudea , 1997).
  2. ↑ a b AE 1994, 01501 , AE 1971, 00379 and AE 1994, 01500 .
  3. ↑ a b c Nicolae Gudea: The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, p. 66f., ( Digitized version ).
  4. ^ Official website of the museum (Romanian), accessed January 4, 2019
  5. ^ Official website of the museum (Romanian), accessed January 4, 2019
  6. ↑ List of historical monuments on the website of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Romanian), accessed on January 2, 2019.