FRE Friday - The Danube

The Hadrian’s Wall Community Archaeology Project (WallCAP) examines the landscape heritage of the Hadrian’s Wall corridor and World Heritage Site (WHS) by building a community-based network, guided and trained by professionals. The project aims to foster local engagement and social investment in heritage landscapes. WallCAP is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and hosted by Newcastle University. For more information or to sign up as a volunteer please visit our website or social media!

Hadrian's Wall Community Archaeology Project

Our third FRE Friday will explore the Roman frontiers of the Danube.

The third FRE Friday takes a cruise down the Danube, Europe’s largest river system with:Dr Orsolya Láng starting our journey in PannoniaTitle: “Behold, here is the Hungarian Pompeii!” – the story of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia InferiorAquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia has been the subject of archaeological research for more than 130 years now, unearthing the remains of the legionary fortress, the governor’s palace, quarters of the Military and Civil Towns, watchtowers, cemeteries and numerous villas. This paper will focus on these settlement parts introducing the most important and interesting buildings so far discovered, together with the most spectacular finds (including the famous water organ). It also seeks answers to the question of why this area – namely the Danube Bend and the zone of present-day Budapest – was so important part of the Pannonian limes. The paper will also deal with the Roman remains still visible in the modern cityscape showing how much the settlement structure of Budapest inherited from Roman times.Dr Ioana Oltean presenting DaciaTitle: TBCDr Emily Hanscam exploring the frontier of the Lower DanubeTitle: Nationalism and archaeology: Excavating Romania’s Roman past on the Lower DanubeWhat is it like to research the Romans in a country named ‘Romania’, where the Roman frontier on the lower Danube acts as a present-day border? How do narratives about the past, which we construct as archaeologists, classicists, and historians, impact on national identity-making today? On the margins of Empire in Antiquity and on the edge of Europe today, the Roman Lower Danube frontier is a region that inspires a number of questions revolving around our continued relationship to the past.

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