Castrul roman Pojejena
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The Pojejena Roman fort is located on the territory of Pojejena, Caraș-Severin county.
The place chosen by the Romanians for the construction of the fort with the adjacent military vicus is ideal for the control of navigation on the Danube, being in the area of
visibility of the Divici and Coronini fortresses. At the same time, the place had many times in history been a guard point for crossing the Danube from the south to the north, a veritable bridgehead. Even Count Marsigli, who visited the area at the end of the 17th century, noted the connection between the Roman ruins from the Serbian Pojejena and those that were visible opposite, on the southern bank of the Danube, next to the Turkish Pojejena.
In the area of the castle between the furrows of freshly plowed land, a coin, with a dull appearance, issued by the emperor Gallienus was discovered. This relevant discovery may be a sign that at the end of the 3rd century the fortification was still being used intensively. In the area of the civil settlement, the land looks like
more affected by agricultural and gardening works, a fact that complicates the research. However, the land offers many traces of masonry, Roman ceramic fragments, especially from the II-III century AD and even if the area was "haunted" by poachers for years , ancient metal objects also appear.
The stratigraphy here does not exceed 0.80 cm and the ancient layers are often destroyed by modern and medieval habitation. The archaeological potential of the area is huge and there are still patches of land that have not been disturbed very much by the contemporary habitation that overlaps the ancient Pojejena, surfaces that should be protected and researched like an authentic archaeological reserve.
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The place chosen by the Romanians for the construction of the fort with the adjacent military vicus is ideal for the control of navigation on the Danube, being in the area of
visibility of the Divici and Coronini fortresses. At the same time, the place had many times in history been a guard point for crossing the Danube from the south to the north, a veritable bridgehead. Even Count Marsigli, who visited the area at the end of the 17th century, noted the connection between the Roman ruins from the Serbian Pojejena and those that were visible opposite, on the southern bank of the Danube, next to the Turkish Pojejena.
In the area of the castle between the furrows of freshly plowed land, a coin, with a dull appearance, issued by the emperor Gallienus was discovered. This relevant discovery may be a sign that at the end of the 3rd century the fortification was still being used intensively. In the area of the civil settlement, the land looks like
more affected by agricultural and gardening works, a fact that complicates the research. However, the land offers many traces of masonry, Roman ceramic fragments, especially from the II-III century AD and even if the area was "haunted" by poachers for years , ancient metal objects also appear.
The stratigraphy here does not exceed 0.80 cm and the ancient layers are often destroyed by modern and medieval habitation. The archaeological potential of the area is huge and there are still patches of land that have not been disturbed very much by the contemporary habitation that overlaps the ancient Pojejena, surfaces that should be protected and researched like an authentic archaeological reserve.
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