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| Tirighina-Barboş archeological site |
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Tirighina-Barboş archeological site "the most advanced defense spur in the northeastern part of the Roman Empire, a Roman fortification from the beginning of the first millennium, located on a dava (Dacian fortress)" prof. Cristian Căldăraru, "the only historical monument in historical Moldova attested from the II-III centuries after Christ" - i, inscribed on the List of Historical Monuments. The archaeological reserve overlaps with another, paleontological one: mollusk fossils from 400,000 years ago.
As early as 1836, the professor from Iași, Gheorghe Săulescu - the one who, guided by the writings of Dimitrie Cantemir and Grigore Ureche, carried out the first researches here - found with sadness that the former Castellum, the Roman camp and the city at the foot of these fortifications constituted a stone quarry. of Galaţi and Brăila. The extension of Barboşi locality, the construction of the railway over the Roman civil settlement, with stone and earth dislocated from the site, the lifting of the tourist stop (now abandoned) and the indifference of the authorities after ’90 brought the monument in a state of pre-collapse.
Archaeological research carried out on the site so far has revealed "treasures". For example, a unique vestige in Romania: a Roman tile with an incised ox head and a snake, an artifact that would confirm Săulescu's hypothesis: here was the old capital of Moldova. Also here was discovered the tomb "Innocens" ("Innocent" - name given to those baptized in Christ), inscribed on a gold brooch found next to the remains of the one who wore it, a Christian Daco-Roman.
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| Tirighina-Barboş archeological site |
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| Tirighina-Barboş archeological site |
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