Islaz-Racoviță Castle

Islaz-Racoviță Castle
limes	Dacian Limes
section	Limes Alutanus; A / X / 67
Dating (occupancy)	Trajan (?), ; older than Islaz-Verdea Castle
Type	Auxiliary fort
unit	unknown
size	105 m × 75 m = 0.79 ha (?)
Construction	Earth fort
State of preservation	invisible ground monument
place	Izlaz / Teleorman district
Geographical location	43 ° 43 '59 " N , 24 ° 45' 26" E Coordinates: 43 ° 43 '59 " N , 24 ° 45' 26" E
height	26 m
Previous	Islaz-Verdea Fort ; (A / X / 66, south)
Subsequently	Tia Mare Castle (?) ; (A / X / 68, north) ; Slăveni Castle ; (A / X / 69, north)

Islaz-Racoviță fort in the course of the Dacian Limites

The Izlaz-Racoviță Fort is a former Roman auxiliary fort on the territory of the municipality of Izlaz , Teleorman County , in the Romanian region of Great Wallachia .

location

In today's settlement image, the soil monument is on the eastern edge of the community, near the old church, east of the main road and west of the silted Racoviță brook in the "Cetatea Racovica" corridor . A large part of the former fort area is covered by the old cemetery. Today nothing is visible in the area, some of the findings were washed away by floods, or they were destroyed when the old cemetery was built. In addition, the western part of the camp was affected by the gradual expansion of the modern village. In ancient times, the crew of the fort probably had the task of monitoring shipping traffic on the Olt and land traffic on the Limes road that ran parallel to the river.

Archaeological evidence

Only the northwest corner of the former military camp is preserved. With some reservations, the warehouse could be interpolated to a size of 105 m by 75 m (corresponding to 0.79 hectares). A significantly larger extent is conceivable, since the eastern and south-eastern areas in particular were most severely affected by washings, so that the contours opposite to the northwest corner can no longer be traced. The fort was surrounded by a two- to three-fold wall / ditch system. Nothing is known about the troops stationed in Izlaz-Verdea.

Lost property and monument protection

The archaeological finds from Islaz-Verdea are in the Muzeul Judeațean Olt (Museum of the Olt District) in Slatina .

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 TR-14207 ISB 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.

literature

Nicolae Gudea : The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, pp. 82f., ( Digitized version ).
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 , p. 208.
Pavel Mirea and Ion Torcică: Cerectări arheologice la Izlaz (jud. Teleorman) . Muzeul Oltului, 2 (2012), pp. 21-42, ( digitized ).

Web links

Castrul roman de la Islaz - Racoviță on the official archaeological online database ran.cimec.ro of the Romanian Ministry of Culture (Romanian), accessed on April 5, 2019.

Individual evidence

^ Route / section / fort number (based on Nicolae Gudea , 1997).
↑ ^a ^b Nicolae Gudea: The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, pp. 82f., ( Digitized version ).
↑ Castrul roman de la Islaz - Racoviță on the official archaeological online database ran.cimec.ro of the Romanian Ministry of Culture (Romanian), accessed on April 5, 2019.
↑ Pavel Mirea and Ion Torcică: Cerectări arheologice la Izlaz (jud teleorman.) . Muzeul Oltului, 2 (2012), pp. 21-42, ( digitized ).
↑ Official website of the Muzeul Judeatan Olt [sic!] (Romanian), accessed on April 5, 2019.
↑ TR-IsB-14206 on the official archaeological online database ran.cimec.ro of the Romanian Ministry of Culture (Romanian), accessed on April 5, 2019.
↑ List of historical monuments on the website of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage

[1] Route / section / fort number (based on Nicolae Gudea , 1997).

[Gudea-2] Nicolae Gudea: The Dacian Limes. Materials on its story. In: Yearbook of the Römisch Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz. 44, 2, 1997, pp. 82f., ( Digitized version ).

[3] Castrul roman de la Islaz - Racoviță on the official archaeological online database ran.cimec.ro of the Romanian Ministry of Culture (Romanian), accessed on April 5, 2019.

[4] Pavel Mirea and Ion Torcică: Cerectări arheologice la Izlaz (jud teleorman.) . Muzeul Oltului, 2 (2012), pp. 21-42, ( digitized ).

[5] Official website of the Muzeul Judeatan Olt [sic!] (Romanian), accessed on April 5, 2019.

[6] TR-IsB-14206 on the official archaeological online database ran.cimec.ro of the Romanian Ministry of Culture (Romanian), accessed on April 5, 2019.

[7] List of historical monuments on the website of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage