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Donevski, Peti V.: Some notes about the legionary fortress at Durostorum (Lower Moesia)
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Peti Donevski
Svistov
SOME NOTES ABOUT THE LEGIONARY FORTRESS
AT DUROSTORUM (LOWER MOESIA)
A new and at first sight insignificant discovery in Silistra (ancient Durostorum)
as well as some obscure matters of my work in the past stimulated me to come
back to some problems concerning the military camp there.
In several articles about the camp, canabae and topography of Durostorum
on the basis of little information (e.g. a part of southern and western walls of the
camp, two towers, parts of two barracks and so called house of the centurio) I
made an attempt to define the size of the legion fortress. According to my
measurements and calculations its length had to be about 470-490 m and the
width about 415-420 m [Donevski 1990, 237], The difference of 10 or 20 m
depended on the criteria which I used — the distance between the towers or the
finding inner buildings. This hypothesis was confirmed after my colleague from
Silistra Ivan Bucvarov uncovered the north-eastern comer of the camp. It turned
out that its length was about 510 m and the width about 430 m. I said about
because the data which I used were from the cadastral plan of the modem town
of Silistra.
During the investigation of the southern wall of the camp in 1972 some data
remained unclear. A part of the wall was razed to the ground and I saw in the
profile that the outer part of it was deeper than the inner one. At the same time
the eastern wall of the inner tower at that place was connected with the deeper
part of the fortress wall. Something like this I could observe on the south-western
comer of the camp where there was another inner tower. Now, I may assume
that in the very beginning the width of the wall of the legion camp was 1.50 m.
This fact leads to the change of the size of the inner towers and the width of the
intervalum. After many years I found the same situation when I investigated the
southern wall of the fortress at Novae [Donevski 1996, 203]. There the walls of
the inner towers went under the inner part of the fortress wall which was built in
the late Roman time.
Svistov
SOME NOTES ABOUT THE LEGIONARY FORTRESS
AT DUROSTORUM (LOWER MOESIA)
A new and at first sight insignificant discovery in Silistra (ancient Durostorum)
as well as some obscure matters of my work in the past stimulated me to come
back to some problems concerning the military camp there.
In several articles about the camp, canabae and topography of Durostorum
on the basis of little information (e.g. a part of southern and western walls of the
camp, two towers, parts of two barracks and so called house of the centurio) I
made an attempt to define the size of the legion fortress. According to my
measurements and calculations its length had to be about 470-490 m and the
width about 415-420 m [Donevski 1990, 237], The difference of 10 or 20 m
depended on the criteria which I used — the distance between the towers or the
finding inner buildings. This hypothesis was confirmed after my colleague from
Silistra Ivan Bucvarov uncovered the north-eastern comer of the camp. It turned
out that its length was about 510 m and the width about 430 m. I said about
because the data which I used were from the cadastral plan of the modem town
of Silistra.
During the investigation of the southern wall of the camp in 1972 some data
remained unclear. A part of the wall was razed to the ground and I saw in the
profile that the outer part of it was deeper than the inner one. At the same time
the eastern wall of the inner tower at that place was connected with the deeper
part of the fortress wall. Something like this I could observe on the south-western
comer of the camp where there was another inner tower. Now, I may assume
that in the very beginning the width of the wall of the legion camp was 1.50 m.
This fact leads to the change of the size of the inner towers and the width of the
intervalum. After many years I found the same situation when I investigated the
southern wall of the fortress at Novae [Donevski 1996, 203]. There the walls of
the inner towers went under the inner part of the fortress wall which was built in
the late Roman time.