CONTENTS

Foreword

ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

Flavius Bozu, Ovidiu Bozu
Preventive Archaeological Research on Middle Ground Wave from Gearmata Confine (Timiș County)

Richard A. Mason, Lucas C. Mason
Unrecognized Remains of the Western Segment of the Ploscuţeni-Stoicani Vallum (Athanaric’s Wall) East of Ploscuţeni (Vrancea County, Romania)

Valeriu Sîrbu, Costin Croitoru, Stănică Pandrea
The Linear Fortification from Șuţești, Brăila County

Magdalena Ștefan, Dan Ștefan
Alternative Explorations of Linear Fortifications “Trajan’s vallum” from Șuţești (Brăila County)

NARRATIVE SOURCES

Dragoș Măndescu
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 Cotiugă
On the Dating and Use of the Linear Fortification from Southern Moldavia (Stoicani-Ploscuţeni)

Mircea Ignat
Earth Vallums – Possible Interpretations

VARIA

Vitalie Bârcă
Olbia, Tyras, the Roman Empire and the Sarmatians in the Second Half of the 1st – Early 2nd Century AD