Overbetuwe-Driel Castle
| Overbetuwe-Driel Castle | |
|---|---|
| Alternative name | Driel Fort |
| limes | Lower Germanic Limes |
| Dating (occupancy) | 10/20 AD to 260 (?) |
| Type | unknown |
| unit | unknown (cavalrymen) |
| size | 8.5 ha |
| Construction | unknown |
| State of preservation | supposed |
| place | Overbetuwe - Driel |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 57 '34 " N , 5 ° 49' 15" E |
| Previous | Castra Herculis (east) |
| Subsequently | Overbetuwe-Randwijk Castle (west) |
| Backwards | Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum (south) |
| Upstream | Marschlager Ermelo (north) |
The Overbetuwe-Driel fort is a Roman auxiliary fort of the Lower Germanic Limes which is presumed to be very likely . The former military camp was in the area of Driel , a village in the municipality of Overbetuwe in the Dutch province of Gelderland .
Location and findings
About 3.5 km west of Arnhem-Meinerswijk Fort , the military camp was in an exposed and favorable military geographical location on a ridge that provides a good connection between the military site and the vicus of Overbetuwe - Elst, five kilometers to the south, and with the 15 km to the south remote legionary camp Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum / Nijmegen .
To date, no archaeological excavations have been carried out. All findings are based on chance discoveries. Due to the composition of this find material, in particular due to the early Roman terra sigillata , the fort is likely to be founded in the second decade of the first century AD at the latest. The scattering of finds indicates an unusual size of the storage area of around 8.5 hectares. The occupation of the camp is unknown. It possibly consisted of a cavalry unit, an Ala or Cohors equitata , or corresponding vexillationes . This is supported by an inscription Fund, a graffito of Salios from the Turma of Gaius and parts of harnesses, which in 1895 together with phalerae were found nearby.
The camp probably ended around the year 260.
The finds from Driel are now in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden .
See also
literature
- Saskia G. van Dockum : The Dutch river basin . In: Tilmann Bechert and Willem J. H. Willems (eds.): The Roman border between the Moselle and the North Sea coast . Theiss, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-8062-1189-2 , p. 78
- Willem JH Willems : Romans and Batavians. A Regional Study in the Dutch Eastern River Area . Academic Proefschrift ter Verkrijging van de graad van doctor in de Letteren aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Self-published, Amersfoort 1986, (also online as a pdf on the website of the University of Leiden), p. 237 f. and 252-255
Web links
- Willem J. H. Willems : Het Romeinse castellum in Driel (PDF; 6.3 MB) , 1980 on the official website of the University of Leiden, p. 347f. (Dutch)
- Overbetuwe (Driel) on cultuurwijzer.nl, an official website for the cultural heritage of the Netherlands (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ^ Willem JH Willems: Romans and Batavians. A Regional Study in the Dutch Eastern River Area . Academic Proefschrift ter Verkrijging van de graad van doctor in de Letteren aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam. Self-published, Amersfoort 1986, (also online as pdf, 93.3 MB , on the website of the University of Leiden), pp. 252–255.
- ↑ Pieter Jan Remees Modderman: Het outheidkundig onderzoek van de oude woongronden in de Over- en Neder-Betuwe . OML 30, 1946, pp. 66-93.
- ↑ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden , official website of the museum (Dutch, partly also in English).
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