Those Men and their Shackles. A Rare Discovery from Roman Dacia
Ana Cristina Hamat
In the collection of Highland Banat Museum from Reșiţa, we can find a special artefact with inventory number 34614, discovered in one Roman forts, region. It is shackle, found fort Vărădia Chilii, 2006. From typological point view, specimen here, certainly shackle period, which belongs to type 4 W.H. Manning and known as Kunzing F. H. Thompson. part series rather rare artefacts Empire, illustrated Dacia by discoveries made forts Călugăreni, Buciumi, Ilișua, Mehadia Bologa well research carried out military vicus Porolissum, also Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa mithraeum. context, it clear that artifact was used troops stationed here secure prisoners war or even non-submissive individuals inside be dated beginning second century, between conquest years 117–118 AD. Furthermore, based on fairly large inner diameter, appears Vărădia, fixed feet called fetter.
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