Piatra Roșie Dacian fortress

Piatra Roșie Dacian fortress
	The hill fort
	Shown within Romania
Location	Dealul Piatra Roșie, Luncani, Hunedoara, Romania
Coordinates	45°36′08″N 23°08′51″E / 45.602264°N 23.147403°ECoordinates: 45°36′08″N 23°08′51″E / 45.602264°N 23.147403°E
Altitude	807 m (2,648 ft)
History
Events	Trajan's Dacian Wars
Site notes
Condition	Ruined
Website	www.piatra-rosie.ro
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Reference no.	906
Monument istoric
Reference no.	HD-I-s-A-03200

Piatra Roşie, which means Red Rock, was a Dacian hill fort two days march to the west from Costeşti-Cetăţuie fortress, at Luncani in Boşorod municipality. It was built in two phases. In the first phase a long (102 m) rectangular main citadel was built at the height of land^[2] with watch towers on each end and two outlying watch towers. Later the larger area inside the watch towers was enclosed with walls.^[3] It appears that the hilltop was flattened in the process in order to produce a usable space.^[4]

Panoramic view from the fortress
Paved road
Tower
Roots
Fallen blocks
Red rock
Fortress plan

Artefacts[]

Dacian artefact from site.
Dacian shield (1st century BC) found on site - on display in the .
Dacian roasting spit (1st century BC) found on site - on display in the Roman Museum Manching.

References[]

^ "National Register of Historic Monuments in Romania, Hunedoara County" (PDF). www.inmi.ro. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
^ Aerial photograph shows hill at Luncani. Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007) Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation Psychology Press, London, page 81, ISBN 0-415-41252-8
^ MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan (1975) The Dacian Stones Speak University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pages 58–60, ISBN 0-8078-1226-9
^ Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007) Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation Psychology Press, London, page 95, ISBN 0-415-41252-8

External links[]

[lmi-1] "National Register of Historic Monuments in Romania, Hunedoara County" (PDF). www.inmi.ro. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012.

[2] Aerial photograph shows hill at Luncani. Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007) Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation Psychology Press, London, page 81, ISBN 0-415-41252-8

[MacKendrick-2-3] MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan (1975) The Dacian Stones Speak University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pages 58–60, ISBN 0-8078-1226-9

[4] Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007) Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation Psychology Press, London, page 95, ISBN 0-415-41252-8

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v t Ancient Dacian cities and/or fortresses
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