Roman camp Am Goldstein

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The "Am Goldstein" camp is a Roman military camp from the early imperial era. It is located about 700 meters west of the Rödgen camp in Bad Nauheim and was discovered in the aerial photograph in 1985.

The camp covers an area of ​​approx. 1.5 hectares (300 × 470 meters) and is surrounded by a pointed moat . As a structural specialty, the system has an internal fastening of 56 × 65 meters. No further internal developments have been found so far. Possibly this is a training camp for the Roman army.

Between 1986 and 1991 excavations were carried out by the Roman-Germanic Commission (RGK), but so far they have not brought any more precisely datable finds.

literature

  • HJ Köhler, Siegmar von Schnurbein : The Romans are coming! The storage marks on the Goldberg . In: Sole & Salz make history. 50 years of regional archeology. 150 years of archaeological research in Bad Nauheim . Mainz 2003, pp. 279-281.
  • Jörg Lindenthal, R. Nickel: Roman camps at the Goldstein in Bad Nauheim . In: Hessen Archeology 2004 . Stuttgart 2005, pp. 86-88.
  • A. Wigg: Newly discovered military camps of the Haltern period in Central Hesse . In: Wolfgang Schlueter , Rainer Wiegels : Rome, Germania and the excavations of Kalkriese . Rasch, Osnabrück 1999, ISBN 3-932147-25-1 , pp. 419-436.

Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 11.5 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 7.9"  E