Stockstadt Roman Fort
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Stockstadt Fort is a former Roman fort located in Stockstadt am Main in the district of Aschaffenburg in Lower Franconia. Following several years of excavations, mainly in the early 20th century, evidence was uncovered indicating the existence of a fort complex comprising two previously documented predecessor buildings, as well as a succession of different troops stationed there. From the early period of the Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes to the fall of the Limes, Stockstadt was therefore an important military camp on the Main Limes, the so-called Wet Limes. The site is of significant archaeological interest due to the large number of stone monuments that have been discovered, particularly in the vicus area, which encompasses two mithrae, a Jupiter Dolichenus sanctuary and a beneficiarius station.
Limes | ORL 33 (RLK) |
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Route (RLK) | Upper Germanic-Rhaetian Limes |
Dating (occupancy) | around 90 CE until around 260 CE |
Units sheltered | Cohors III Aquitanorum equitata c.R., Coh. II Hispanorum eq. p. f., |
Size | 3.25 ha |
Construction | a) Wood/soil fort b) Stone fort |
State of conservation | Ground monument not visible |
Place | Stockstadt am Main |
Geographic location | 49°58′38.6″N 9°4′2.5″E |
Hight | 115 m above NHN |
Preceded by | Seligenstadt fort (northwest) |
Followed by | Fort Niedernberg (southeast) |
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