Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 30/1. (2010)
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134 L Vass Findspots inside the forts I based my research on the published material from the excavations of forts and tried to determine in each case the typical female related objects, whilst observing their distribution. Unfortunately I could not cover the entire province, due to the poor state of prior research and publications. Dacia Porolissensis is the most researched province among the three Dacian provinces (Fig. 3); therefore the majority of the material and information comes from the auxiliary forts from there. From Dacia Superior only the camp from Inláceni, Bráncovene§ti, while from Dacia Inferior the auxiliary fort from Räcari and Praetorium provided data and material which could be explained by the scant level of research in this area and the poor quality publications. It would have been very interesting to observe possible similarities or differences between auxiliary forts and the two legionary forts from Apulum and Potaissa,40 but again the current state of research did not allow it. Fig. 3. The Roman province of Dacia (after Tóth 1988, fig. 9): Forts with female related artefacts. The distribution of the analyzed artefacts (Fig. 4) within the forts clearly shows the concentration of certain small finds in the places where the soldiers were accommodated which must be more than a coincidence. Again, due to the careless documentation of finds from the excavations of forts, the majority of objects have unknown provenance. They could have been recovered anywhere in the territory of the camp. The second largest provenance of artefacts was the barracks (Buciumi, Porolissum, Cä§eiu, Giläu, see Appendix) and the possible barrack or 40From Potaissa only some hairpins are mentioned without the precise indication of findspot (Bärbulescu 1997, Abb. 27/3).
