Session organisers / Chairpersons:
Rebecca Jones, Historic Environment Scotland (E-mail: rebecca.jones@hes.scot)
Nemanja Mrđić, Institute of Archaeology Belgrade (E-mail: nemanjamrdjic@gmail.com)
Fortifications and fortification elements along the Limes are the focus of this session. Military infrastructure and fortifications are the essence of the frontier, the base around everything formed and further developed. Either artificial (walls) or natural barriers (rivers) with forts behind connected by network of roads, with small settlements to service and support life of soldiers. For more than seventy years this was the light-motive of the congress. As the congress grew and developed all aspects of frontier were taken more and more into consideration helping us to understand unique nature of limes. But, no matter what was studied the core of the frontier remained unchanged, system of fortifications is still the focus of the research of what we now as the edge of Empire.
Confirmed participants for this session:
- Andreas A. Schaflitzl: Crumbled stones and burnt wood – results of the excavation on the Raetian Limes in Laimerstadt (Bavaria)
- Daniel Burger, Peter Henrich, Markus Scholz: A new roman early imperial military camp at the lower Lahn
- Sirma Alexandrova: Early Roman temporary military camp near the village of Polenitsa, Sandanski municipality, SW Bulgaria
- Rebecca H Jones: Our ditches are missing! Camps without defences
- Birgitta Hoffmann: The Roman Gask Project
- David Woolliscroft: How long was the Roman Gask Frontier (and when)?
- William S Hanson: Understanding the design of the Antonine Wall: some problems and issues
- Matthew Symonds: Thinking small: the role of fortlets in building frontiers
- Horatiu Cociș: Burgus-type structures from the frontier of Dacia Porolissensis
- Felix Marcu, George Cupcea, Aleksandra Jankowska and Jacek Rakoczy: New LiDAR data on the NW limes of Dacia
- Alexandru Popa: Geomagnetische Prospektionen an römischen Militäranlagen im SO Sie-benbürgen / Geomagnetic prospections in the Roman Military sites in south-east Transylvania
- Cristina Mitar, Adriana Rusu Pescaru, Eugen Pescaru: Cigmău – an unusual fort near the imperial border
- Florian Matei-Popescu, Ovidiu Țentea, Moesia Superior and Dacia during Trajan: Army and Frontiers
- Perica Špehar: Non-invasive prospection of the site Egeta
- Snežana Nikolić, Ivan Bogdanović, Goran Stojić, Ljubomir Jevtović: Exploring Viminacium: New excavations on the legionary fortress
- Daniel Burger: New researches of the roman fortress of Mogontiacum/Mainz
- Uwe Xaver Müller: The internal structure of the legionary fortress of Mogontiacum/ Mainz (Germany) – First insights
- Lisa Berger (presenting author), Friedrich Lüth, Steve Bödecker, Large scale geomagnetic survey: the legionary fortresses of Vetera I (Xanten/Germany)
- Steve Bödecker (presenting author), Friedrich Lüth, Lisa Berger: Large scale geomagnetic survey: the surrounding area of the legionary fortresses of Vetera I (Xanten/Germany)
- Horváth, F., Szabó, M., Viczián, I.: Mud Max – Revealing Roman landscape in the modern industrial environment on the Brigetio – Azaum limes section, Hungary
- István Gergő Farkas: New finds from the auxiliary fort Lugio/Florentia (Dunaszekcső, HU)
- C-G Alexandrescu, Gugl, G. Grabherr, B. Kainrath: Military and civilian sites in the hinterland of Troesmis
- Mihail Zahariade: Limes Scythicus qui latius diffusiusque porrigitur (CTh. VII 17.1). A commentary on a 4th and 5th century segment of a Danube river frontier
- Stefan Traxler, Gerald Grabherr, Barbara Kainrath and Wolfgang Klimesch: Burgus & Quadriburgium. Two Late Antique fortifications in Northwestern Noricum
- Gerald Grabherr, Stefan Groh, Barbara Kainrath and Stefan Traxler: Before the Legion arrives – The presence of the Roman army on the western ripa Norica
- Julian Bennett: The fort at Çitköy-Sabus reconsidered
- Maciej Czapski: On the edge of the Roman Empire – a defensive system of the south region of Mauretania Tingitana
- Zbigniew Fiema: The Roman Fort in Hegra
- John Peter Oleson: Tradition and Innovation in the Trajanic Auxiliary Fort at Hauarra (Humayma), Jordan
- Mark Driessen: Power Over or Power With? Monumentality in the Desert: the Roman legionary fortress of Udhruh (Jordan)
- Daniel Burger: New researches of the roman fortress of Mogontiacum/Mainz
Posters related to this session:
- Călin Timoc: The Danube limes fort from Pojejena in a new light of nonivasive prospections