Roman Danube Limes in Baranja

location
Osijek (Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia)
method
Magnetics and GPR
client
Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
time
2024 / 11

The section nominated for the UNESCO Tentative List “Danube Limes in Croatia” forms the central part of the extensive and complex Danube Limes and consists of a series of sites stretching 138 kilometers from the Batina Fort (Roman fort Ad Militare) near the Hungarian border to Ilok Fort (Roman site Cuccium) near the Serbian border. The section located in Osijek-Baranja County stretches from Batina to Dalj.

Between 2020 and 2024, several Roman sites along the Danube in Baranja were investigated using magnetic prospecting (total area: 225 ha) and ground-penetrating radar. The work was conducted by cmp in cooperation with the Archeologická Agentúra, Bratislava (Slovakia). The following sites were surveyed

  • Dalj (Teutoburgium?): Magnetic prospection: 146 ha
  • Dragojlov brijeg near Kneževi Vinogradi: Magnetic prospection: 77 ha
  • Zmajevac (Ad Novas) : Magnetic prospection: 0.5 ha
  • Batina-Gradac (Ad Militare): Magnetic prospection: 1.4 ha, GPR 0.7 ha

See also: Meyer, C. & Leleković, T. (2023) Much more than just a Roman camp: diachronic interpretation of magnetic data from Danube Limes in Croatia, Advances in On- and Offshore Archaeological Prospection. doi: 10.38072/978-3-928794-83-1/P66.