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this place was built the first timber fort around AD 47. It was replaced or
altered three times. The surface was 1.2 hectares.| Utrecht (Traiectum) | Back to the report about the Netherlands |
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this place was built the first timber fort around AD 47. It was replaced or
altered three times. The surface was 1.2 hectares.
In the first half of the 3rd century all timber buildings were replaced by stone buildings. At the same time the fort was expanded in the north. The surface was now 1.9 hectares.
The camp was presumably used between the years 88 and 260 through the cohors II Hispanorum peditata (pia fidelis).
A camp village existed in the east and west of the fort, presumably along the prolongation the via principalis. The eastern village had a surface of approx. 2.2 hectares, the west of approx. 1.6 hectares. In the second half of the 2nd century the ground was heaped up - presumably because of inundations - around more than a half of a meter.
Two buildings and other finds are dated into the 4th century.
Today only still few remains are visible:
 | Parts of the fort wall in the Utrechts Centrum voor de Kunsten, Domplein 4, Utrecht (from 9 to 21 o'clock, Saturday from 9 to 16 o'clock). Since this is closed in the vacation time, I could not look up. |
| The contours of the fort are in part marked in the pavement, what I overlooked unfortunately. |