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The coin finds from the survey and the excavation in Strebersdorf(Burgenland, Austria) on the Amber Road (2008–2017)
Ursula Schachinger
orcid.org/0000-0002-1553-4633
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In the course of research by the Austrian Archaeological Institute
(ÖAW) between 2008 and 2017 in the area of the Amber Road in
eastern Austria, a military camp dating to the early imperial period
was discovered near Strebersdorf, from which 452 coin finds
were recovered by means of detector survey. Findings of coins
from the region date back more than 100 years, published in 1984
in the series Die Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Österreich
(FMRÖ). In the following, the finds from the survey will be analysed
numismatically, focusing at first on the question of the beginning
of military presence on site. Furthermore, the development
of the settlement up to the 4th century is traced, and the
end of coin circulation and settlement activity is also examined.
The beginning of coin circulation in Strebersdorf can be determined
as falling in late Augustan / early Tiberian times, which
suggests that the earliest military camp was established in the
wake of the expansions under Augustus, and probably in close
connection with the Pannonian Revolt (6–9 AD). In late Tiberian
/ early Claudian times, the coin supply broke up, and obviously
the camp was abandoned. After this, the coin finds no longer occur
in the core area of the former military camp, but shift to the
vicus, which takes a clear upswing from the times of Trajan and
Hadrian onwards. A renewed military presence from Hadrian onwards
is suggested not only by increasing numbers of coin finds,
but also by the facts that the Amber Road, as a supply road to the
Danube, had to be secured, and that local iron mining was being
conducted. The settlement seems also to have participated
in the general economic upswing in the Severan period. From
then on, the finds occur almost exclusively in the area of the
street settlement, which apparently developed as an economic
centre. In the 4th century, too, uninterrupted development can
be expected, with an absolute peak of monetary activity being
reached in the 2nd half of the century.
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Hrčak ID:
245869
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Datum izdavanja:
30.11.2020.
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