Novae : Headquarters Buildings of the Roman Legionary Base : Excavations of 2010

Abstract

The excavation campaigns of 2006–2008 carried out in the central part of the site revealed small sections of the outer walls of two successive headquarters buildings, 1 that of the legio VIII Augusta dated to the Neronian period and that of theI Italica. They functioned asa boundary wall of the Flavian principia until the mid-5th c. Ad (Figs. 1, 2). other details of the ground plan were also detected. In 2009 and 2010 further work was done on the project aiming to take precise measurements of the visible architectural remains excavated by Polish and Bulgarian teams since 1960 and to create a digital elevation model of the whole archaeological site of the legionary fortress.