Piatra Roșie Dacian fortress explained

Piatra Roșie, which means Red Rock, was a Dacian hill fort two days march to the west from Costești-Cetățuie fortress, at Luncani in Boșorod commune, Hunedoara County. It was built in two phases. In the first phase a long (102 m) rectangular main citadel was built at the height of land^[2] with watch towers on each end and two outlying watch towers. Later the larger area inside the watch towers was enclosed with walls.^[3] It appears that the hilltop was flattened in the process in order to produce a usable space.^[4]

External links

• Cetățile dacice din Munții Orăștiei - Luncani - Piatra Roșie
• Virtual reconstruction of the fortress
• Cetatea Luncani - Piatra Roșie

Notes and References

1. Web site: National Register of Historic Monuments in Romania, Hunedoara County. www.inmi.ro. 18 October 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20120227080850/http://www.inmi.ro/lmi/HUNEDOARA.pdf. 27 February 2012.
2. Aerial photograph shows hill at Luncani. Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007) Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation Psychology Press, London, page 81,
3. MacKendrick, Paul Lachlan (1975) The Dacian Stones Speak University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, pages 58 - 60,
4. Oltean, Ioana Adina (2007) Dacia: landscape, colonisation and romanisation Psychology Press, London, page 95,