Legionslager Carnuntum

Between 1968 and 1977, archaeological excavations were undertaken at the Roman legionary fortress of Carnuntum (Bad Deutsch-Altenburg, Lower Austria) by the former Limes Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Austrian Archaeological Institute. Carnuntum was built around AD 40–50 and was finally abandoned in the fifth century AD, so the history of the site is quite representative for the development of the Roman limes in this part of the Pannonian frontier. The first section of this volume clearly presents an analysis of the complex building sequence of the fortress' eastern praetentura, which reflects the major lines of development of the entire site. The second section intends to give an overview of the finds from stratified contexts, as well as to present material that has until now remained unpublished. The final analysis deals with selected culture-historical questions of the Carnuntum area, such as aspects of continuity and discontinuity between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.