Honesta Missione. Festschrift für Barbara Pferdehirt

0438365 - ARÚB 2015 DE eng M - Monography Chapter
Tejral, Jaroslav
Reevaluated but still enigmatic - the Roman site at »Burgstall« (okr. Brno-venkov/CZ).
Honesta Missione. Festschrift für Barbara Pferdehirt. Mainz: Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, 2014, s. 221-248. Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, 100. ISBN 978-3-88467-196-2
Institutional support: RVO:68081758
Keywords : Barbaricum * Roman military buildings * dating * Moravia * Mušov
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology

The basic precondition of the Roman military campaign into the hostile territory to the north of the Middle Danube was the establishment of military bases to support the advance of the army. Although since the 20th century some Roman-style buildings have been discovered and investigated, the issues of whether these sites functioned as Roman bases have remained largely disputable. To a certain extent the problem was only solved by the excavation carried out by A. Gnirs in the mid-1920s at „Burgstall“, an elevated site close to the village of Mušov in southern Moravia. Despite the findings of typical Roman structures and artefacts, there has been much discussion about the actual role and dating of the site. The considerable progress concerning the assessment and knowledge is marked only by renewed excavation sorks carried out since the 1980s, which threw new light on its character and chronology. The results of more recent research show an enormous fortified site, which was built by the Roman army. It has been concluded that the area was not only used as a principal gathering-ground of the military units stationed in the region, but also as a large supply base and logistic centre at the time of the Marcomanic Wars. Nevertheless, the gradually established characterisation of the Roman structures at „Burgstall“ and in its neighbourhood mentioned above needs a substantial reappraisal in the light of recent archaeological discoveries. This is indicated above all by a more complicated stratigraphic situation of new fins at the site and their appropriate evaluation. Consequently, the question arises whether the whole site and all the structures can be considered as a single integral and contemporary complex, or whether this archaeological evidence reflects multiple phases and episodes in the duration of the site.
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