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Régészeti tanulmányok - Ottományi Katalin: Késő római kerámia Visegrád-Gizellamajor erődjének É/l. helyiségében
TISICUM XXVI. Katalin Ottományi Late Roman ceramics in the northern I. room of Visegrád Gizellamajor The northern limes part of Valéria province was one of the regions of the Roman Empire that was most densely built with camps, watchtowers and bridgeheads. Between 1988 and 2003 a rectangular, fan-shaped small fort with corner towers was unearthed there. The fort was presumably built during the reign of Constantine II; it was rebuilt by Emperor Valentinianus and served as a fort until 430 AD. Its population was extended several times, first by the civilian residents of local settlements, then by barbarian soldiers arriving from the east. The present paper presents the material found in the I. room of the northern wing. The emphasis can only be explained by the quantity of the material, since the composition of the objects or the vessel-forms cannot be separated from those found in different wings, what is more, there is clear connection with the ceramics of the N/lll. room. The majority of the material consists of late Roman shapes: hard burnt ceramics (78,5%), impressed decorated vessels (10%) and glazed ceramics (5%). These are present in the life of all late Roman age forts and it is difficult to date them inside the second half of the 4th century AD (ceramic groups l-ll.). The appearance of group II. of the impressed ceramics, yellowish-white in colour with ribbed surface or scratched ornaments homemade ceramics, or granular hard-burnt glazed vessels represent a typical group at the turn of the 4th and 5th centuries (groups lla-lll.)Inside room N/l. based upon both the layering and the ceramics, one can separate the layer of the age of the construction (12,6%), the ceramics of the rebuilding (34,6%) and finally the material of the upper scree layer (52%). The number of vessels typical at the turn of the 4th and 5th centuries is the highest in the upper scree layer, and their number decreases as one gets deeper (chart 2.) Inside the N/l. room, it is only the presence of glaze-dotted vessels and glaze clots that suggests local production, that also proves the manufacturing homemade glazed ceramics and impressed ceramics simultaneously. At the same time, there is considerable resemblance with the ceramics unearthed in forts (Tokod, Dunabogdány) and watchtowers (Leányfalu, Pilismarót-Malompatak) in Dunakanyar during the Valentine age but still in operation in the first third of the 5th century.
