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Salve, BenC44. Where did you found this /which site/?
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The site we were working on was called Cambustica or Conbustica and its near the town Vidin.
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Yes, thats right I worked with Krassimira, and thankyou very much.
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Thankyou for posting details of this site. I had never heard of it. The neighbouring fort at Timacum Minus (near Vratarnica in Serbia, I think) seems well-known, with inscriptional evidence of successive garrisons (e.g. J.J. Wilkes, "The Roman Danube", JRS 95, 2005, p. 190). Is the fort at Cambustica/Conbustica (Wilkes has "Combustica") a recent discovery?
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The fitting you showed in your initial post is a Corbridge type fitting, which I would expect to come from the Flavian period occupation of the site you mentioned. For an Augustan period site I would have expected segmentata fittings to be of Kalkriese type. Of course, if the fitting really did come from an Augustan period level, we would have to revise our ideas on when the Corbridge type was introduced and how long the Corbridge and Kalkriese types existed side by side.
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Oh sorry Krassimira, my mistake, I must have somehow got the idea that the site was from 2 AD, ahh thats ok, that makes a lot more sense.
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