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Castellum Aardenburg, TempleCastellum van Maldegem-VakeRomeinse Weg Adegem

Location:

  • Netherlands, Aardenburg
  • geo:51.272636,3.446685
  • Location ± 5-25 m.

Period or year:

  • 175 / 290

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Annotations

Aardenburg: coastal fortress in Germania Inferior. The ancient name may have been Rodanum. See http://www.livius.org/aa-ac/aardenburg/aardenburg.html

The final phase consists of a rectangular fort surrounded by a stone wall with towers at the corners and at intervals in between these. The whole fort was surrounded by a single large ditch. Within, a central principia was found as well as a number of wells and fragments of other buildings. Several ovens were active outside the confines of the fort as well. It was1inhabited until ~ 260-285/290.

References

  1. Meulen, van der. The Late Roman limes revisited. The changing function of the Roman army in the Dutch river/coastal area (AD 260-406/7)


Nearby

Castellum Aardenburg, Temple

Castellum Aardenburg, Temple

Archeologisch Museum Aardenburg

Archeologisch Museum Aardenburg

Castellum van Maldegem-Vake (5 km)

Castellum van Maldegem-Vake


This object was added by René Voorburg on 2012-05-29. Last update by Jan Hazevoet on 2023-09-15. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/72 . Download as RDF/XML, KML.
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