Enoşeşti (Acidava, TabPeut VII, 4)
Location: Piatra Olt, Olt county (RAN: 128114.05; OT-I-s-A-08526)
The camp was built on a hillside located 20 m above the Olt floodplain, between Piatra Olt and Enoșești, at the point known in the second part of the 19th century, “Cetatea lui Traian”. It was mostly destroyed during the construction of the Slatina –Piatra Olt railway in 1872. Several surveys were done by de Butculescu in 1881. Other archaeological surveys were conducted by Cr. M. Vlădescu and Gh. Poenaru-Bordea in 1976. The existence of two phases was assumed based on this research: the first wooden and earth fort was probably built during Trajan’s time (stamp cohors I Flavia Commagenorum – IDR II 551, respectively stamp cohors I Thracum – AE 1989, 630). The second fortification seems to have been built of stone and brick.
The remains of a civilian settlement, a possible military vicus, were identified to the west of the fort; a monetary treasure, discovered inside the fort in 1913, composed of 152 denarii (Domitian-Caracalla), placed in a clay pot.
Part of the study:
Ovidiu Țentea, Florian Matei-Popescu, Vlad Călina, Frontiera romană din Dacia Inferior. O trecere în revistă și o actualizare. 1., Cercetări Arheologice, Vol. 28.1, pag. 9-90, 2021, doi: https://doi.org/10.46535/ca.28.1.01
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