Ancient linear fortifications on the Lower Danube. Proceedings of the national colloquium “ancient linear fortifications on the left bank of the Lower Danube”

CONTENTS Foreword ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH Flavius Bozu, Ovidiu Bozu Preventive Archaeological Research on Middle Ground Wave from Gearmata Confine (Timis County) Richard A. Mason, Lucas C. Mason Unrecognized Remains of the Western Segment of the Ploscuteni-Stoicani Vallum (Athanaric’s Wall) East of Ploscuteni (Vrancea County, Romania) Valeriu Sirbu, Costin Croitoru, Stanica Pandrea The Linear Fortification from Sutesti, Braila County Magdalena Stefan, Dan Stefan Alternative Explorations of Linear Fortifications “Trajan’s vallum” from Sutesti (Braila County) NARRATIVE SOURCES Dragos Mandescu An Almost Forgotten Old Map and the First Mentions of Some Roman Remains on Alutanus and Transalutanus Limes Ion Dumitrescu The “Troian” and Other Roman Monuments on Specht’s Map Costin Croitoru The “Trojan” in the Romanian Oral Tradition DISCUSSIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS Eugen S. Teodor Landscape Restitution and War games: The Gate of Invasions Nicolae Ursulescu, Vasile Cotiuga On the Dating and Use of the Linear Fortification from Southern Moldavia (Stoicani-Ploscuteni) Mircea Ignat Earth Vallums – Possible Interpretations VARIA Vitalie Barca Olbia, Tyras, the Roman Empire and the Sarmatians in the Second Half of the 1st – Early 2nd Century AD