Piatra Roșie Dacian fortress

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Blidaru-entry-icon.png Piatra Roșie Dacian fortress
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The hill fort
Piatra Roșie Dacian fortress is located in Romania
Piatra Roșie Dacian fortress
Location within Romania
Events Trajan's Dacian Wars
Location
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Altitude 807 m (2,648 ft)
Place name Dealul Piatra Roșie
Town Luncani
County Hunedoara
Country  Romania
Reference
RO-LMI HD-I-s-A-03200 [1]
RO-RAN 88500.02 [2]
UNESCO 906
Site notes
Recognition Welterbe.svg UNESCO World Heritage Site
Monument istoric.svg National Historical Monument
Condition Ruined
Website www.piatra-rosie.ro

Piatra Roşie, which means Red Rock, was a Dacian hill fort two days march to the west from Costeşti-Cetăţuie fortress, at Luncani in Boşorod municipality. It was built in two phases. In the first phase a long (102 m) rectangular main citadel was built at the height of land[3] with watch towers on each end and two outlying watch towers. Later the larger area inside the watch towers was enclosed with walls.[4] It appears that the hilltop was flattened in the process in order to produce a usable space.[5]

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References

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  3. Aerial photograph shows hill at Luncani. Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007) Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation Psychology Press, London, page 81, ISBN 0-415-41252-8
  4. MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan (1975) The Dacian Stones Speak University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pages 58–60, ISBN 0-8078-1226-9
  5. Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007) Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation Psychology Press, London, page 95, ISBN 0-415-41252-8

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