Archaeologists Excavate Roman Frontier Site in Romania
It is an archaeological site, but one needs some imagination to picture an ancient Roman fort abutting a major waterway at this place.
"When you first enter the site you are on a very small hill, about three meters at the most above the surrounding farmland to the north and east," writes blogger Lucy MacDonald, who spent part of her summer as a volunteer excavator at the site. It is known as the location of ancient Halmyris, a Roman frontier stronghold in present-day Romania. "Those farm fields used to be the Danube river; however, the river has receded about 300 meters from where it used to be. We know this because there are two man-made harbours at Halmyris, therefore the Danube would have come right up to the fort. Read more.