Redő Ferenc: Katonák Sallában (Zalalövő öröksége 1. Zalalövő, 2003)

Sites S and H Somewhat farther, settlement traces contemporary to the above ones were unearthed in sites S and H. The buttressed structure of the walls, the longest of which is longer than 25 m, that can be called the earliest ones after their stratigraphie position suggest horrea, granaries (Fig. 8). Since this stone construction period lies under the layer of the town the granary was probably also a military construction. A specific feature of the building is that, as far as it could be observed, it was not built of the local rock, which is a limonite containing conglomerate but either from dolomite or from limestone, which had to be transported here (Fig. 9). In the lowermost layer under it, only scattered timber traces, smaller and larger pits and a baking oven were found (Fig. 10), no structure that would imply a building. The S corner of the barrack found in site F, that is the one the farthest from site S is about 120 m from the horrea. As we could not connect the two sites during the excavations, it became especially significant that not only the relative stratigraphie position of the unearthed settlement fragments but partly also their dating was identical. The 7 coins found here from the first half of the 1" century AD means the same density in regard of the unearthed coins as experienced in site F. However, not a single coin was found from the period between 50 and 85. Site Y/l Further features of the period of the military fort were unearthed at site Y/l right on the bank of the river, about 150 m from the above territory. They were evidently adjusted to the line of the bank and were probably used in connection to the crossing. One was a building with timber foundation, which could be followed to a length of 16 m. Its 4.5 x 4.5 m large rooms were arranged in a row. The half a metre thick vertical walls of two more buildings of nearly identical arrangements were built of adobe. The deeper areas between buildings raised on higher elevations were filled in with a bluish loam layer into which posts were places one by one or sometimes in twos. They probably belonged to a wooden floor, which helped the communication between the buildings. Here, too, we can observe two large buildings with timber foundations the orientation of which is slightly divergent, and which could not be used at the same time since the second one was built so close to the entrance of the first one that the entrance could not have been used (Figs. 11 and 12a-c).