id
	11100
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/11100
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	The Roman limes in Germania Inferior: a GIS application for the reconstruction of landscape
Creator
	Ria, Vincenzo
	Rizzo, Raffaele
Date
	2023
Language
	eng
Rights
	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Abstract
	The Roman Limes represents the border line of the Roman Empire at its greatest extent in the 2nd century AD. It stretched over 5,000 km from the Atlantic coast of northern Britain, through Europe to the Black Sea, and from there to the Red Sea and across North Africa to the Atlantic coast. The remains of the Limes today consist of vestiges of built walls, ditches, forts, fortresses, watchtowers and civilian settlements. The limes system is focused both on the presence of natural physical barriers, such as the Rhine and Danube rivers in Europe and the Sahara Desert in North Africa, either on the presence of fortified sections such as the Hadrian’s wall or the Germanic-Rhaetian limes. The latter two are the best preserved and studied section. However, the limes sections in which natural barriers were exploited to mark the boundary of the area under Roman control are less well known. Over the past two decades considerable progress has been made in the knowledge of limes areas such as the Rhine sector. In this area the river was exploited as a natural barrier, and control of the area was based on the presence of two larger legionary camps around which, along the southern course of the Rhine, small auxiliary camps gravitated. Only some of these encampments have been investigated and their position confirmed by archaeological excavations. The position of the other encampments is still speculated and awaiting verification. In this contribution, in order to verify the position of these hypothetical forts, through GIS systems a visibility analysis and path distance analysis was carried out based on the location of certain sites and taking into account the ancient road routes and the geomorphology of the soil.
Is Part Of
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/2002
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Doi
	https://doi.org/10.19282/ac.34.1.2023.32
Issue
	1
Pages
	299–310
Uri
	https://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/articles/1253
Volume
	34
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/Z6HX3TIB/item-list

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