Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 32/2. (2012)

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Archaeological Researches in the Military Vicus from Cälugäreni

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to be the Roman road coming out of camp and heading west along the Niraj Valley. However, both profiles of the trenches show more than a layer of demolition, and the rock is mixed with many fragments of pottery, building materials, iron and fragments of glass vessels. Traces of wall foundation or holes do not exist under the layer stone. Expanding further research to the west and east of these trenches may be clarifying the functionality of this platform. Trench S2 is the richest in artefacts, since a partitioned house with adobe walls and a well were found.

Architecture may perhaps seem at the first sight a grandiose term to apply to the structures of this kind of vicus, but they clearly represent a revolution in the way of life of the region, but it cannot be overestimated (Salway 1965; Bérard 1993a; 1993b; Popa 2002). To talk of town-planning in connexion with the vicus is nonsense; for nothing is clearer than the fact that these settlements normally had none. Most vici grew from a ribbon, developing along the roads leading from the gates of the fort. Occasionally, a back-liner developed into a secondary street (Sommer 1984; Marcu 2009). Also, the planimetry and the housing area will be better known after future campaigns, when we would extend the excavations to uncover the entire house and more of the inhabited area.

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