The summer 2009 season ended only 5 weeks ago...another fantastic season. With each field season we learn more and more about Porolissum's Forum. This summer's campaign, however, was exceptional - we confirmed that the area we excavated in 2004 was indeed a Roman bath! We have to continue excavating in this area to determin the bath's full extent and plan. It appears to cover an area of about 600 m2. On the opposite side of the Forum, we learned a lot about the post-Roman phases. We have always discovered evidence for "medieval" re-use of the forum; this summer we unearthed evidence for two distinct phases - one presumably from the Daco-Roman phase and another from the latest phase of the site, ca. 7th-11th century.
Once again, we had a great team of students, staff and workers! Good, hard work, but also good friendships and fun.
