Budapest Régiségei 24/1. (1976)

ÓBUDA, RÓMAI KORI TÁBOROK, CANABAE ÉS KÖZÉPKORI VÁROS = ÓBUDA, ROMAN CAMPS, CANABAE AND THE MEDIEVAL TOWN = OBUDA, LAGERÂ I KANABE RIMSKOJ EPOHI I SREDNEVEKOVYJ GOROD - H. Kérdő Katalin: Előzetes jelentés az aquincumi II-III. századi legiostábor déli, valamint a IV. századi erőd nyugati frontján végzett kutatásokról 71-77

KATALIN H. KÉRDŐ PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE INVESTIGATIONS CONDUCTED AT THE SOUTHERN FRONT OF THE 2-3rd CENTURY LEGIONARY CAMP AND AT THE SOUTHERN FRONT OF THE 4th CENTURY FORT IN AQUINCUM The excavations of the southern front of the 2- 3rd century legionary camp and of the western front of the 4th century fort were effected in the year 1975. Proceeding from the north to south in the trial trench dug to the east of the house No. 70-74, Szőlő Street, the following were disclosed: a Roman well 1. 5 m. in diameter, an about 8 m. wide fossa, into which later a single-pipe aqueduct was cut. The latter was lead in a 0. 6 m. wide wall laid of one course of stones. Further to the south a 12 m. wide Roman road was found which, as shown by the sections, was restored in later times. The widths of the double fossa uncovered to the south of the latter are 1.1 and 5m., the depths 1.1 and 1.3 m.

, respectively. As to the relative chronology of the uncovered objects the following can be said: the oldest of all seems the southern double fossa, later than that one is the road under which the ashy layer extends over to the filled-in ditch. It is probably the outer road belonging to the large fossa, of which another section is known from earlier times. The northern double trench represents a new result; its connection with the wall of the camp and with the various periods of the latter respectively, needs to be cleared up by later research work, just as the relation of the aqueduct to the water-conduit system already known from before. To the north of the house No. 20. Magyar Lajos Street the horseshoe-shaped tower of the 4th century fort was uncovered. The inside measurements of the tower jutting out of the 3. 6 m. wide western wall of the fort are 6. 7 x 2. 8-3.1 m. (The northern and southern walls diverge towards the west. ) Measured on the southern wall, the width of the wall of the tower is 2.3 m. Its entrance was on the eastern side; in the Middle Ages this entrance was walled up. Under the foundations of the tower there extends a drain pipe, which is 1. 3 m. wide, and the bottom of which was lined with rimmed bricks. Its direction is north to south-west. The inside level of the tower was raised still in the Roman period, by building into it fragments of carved cornices and tombstones. The latest possible date of the building of the tower is indicated by the stamped bricks found in this level, bearing the inscription: AP VALENTINI and FRIGERIDUS DUX AP VAL. A more exact determination of the various periods will be possible at both sites after the elaboration of the finds turned up. (Figures: 15-19, plates: 56-65) 75