Ancient linear fortifications on the Lower Danube. Proceedings of the national colloquium “ancient linear fortifications on the left bank of the Lower

CONTENTS

Foreword

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

Flavius Bozu, Ovidiu Bozu
Preventive Archaeological Research on Middle Ground Wave from Gearmata Confine (Timis County)

Richard A. Mason, Lucas C. Mason
Unrecognized Remains of the Western Segment of the Ploscuteni-Stoicani Vallum (Athanaric’s Wall) East of Ploscuteni (Vrancea County, Romania)

Valeriu Sirbu, Costin Croitoru, Stanica Pandrea
The Linear Fortification from Sutesti, Braila County

Magdalena Stefan, Dan Stefan
Alternative Explorations of Linear Fortifications “Trajan’s vallum” from Sutesti (Braila County)

NARRATIVE SOURCES

Dragos Mandescu
An Almost Forgotten Old Map and the First Mentions of Some Roman Remains on Alutanus and Transalutanus Limes

Ion Dumitrescu
The “Troian” and Other Roman Monuments on Specht’s Map

Costin Croitoru
The “Trojan” in the Romanian Oral Tradition

DISCUSSIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS

Eugen S. Teodor
Landscape Restitution and War games: The Gate of Invasions

Nicolae Ursulescu, Vasile Cotiuga
On the Dating and Use of the Linear Fortification from Southern Moldavia (Stoicani-Ploscuteni)

Mircea Ignat
Earth Vallums – Possible Interpretations

VARIA

Vitalie Barca
Olbia, Tyras, the Roman Empire and the Sarmatians in the Second Half of the 1st – Early 2nd Century AD