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With the help of Exp. Arch. Dr Dorel Bondoc, from Oltenia Museum, the Alexis Project discovered today a lot of Tumuls in a huge area between Orlea and Padina villages, Olt County.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 8th December 2011
The Tumuls clustered around a GPS point on the main road between the two locations, at 43.75662°N 24.34414°E alt = 49m.
In the entire area, between Orlea - Padina - Grojdibodu, the team discovered more than ten Tumuls, a few of them seeming to be on an ancient Roman road to Sucidava, Corabia, another important Roman site.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 8th December 2011
Under the direction of Exp. Arch. Dr Dorel Bondoc, from Oltenia Museum, the Alexis Project has found, at GPS point 43.76007°N 24.40262°E , alt=43 m, about 100 metres to the north of this point, located on the main road between Orlea village and Corabia town, a large area with Tumuls which seem to be built on a line from west to east.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 8th December 2011
This line connects Magurile Insirate and Urzicutza village, on the way to Barca, where there is a huge Roman site. Also, in Corabia town there is a huge Roman site, the Celei-Sucidave castrum. Perhaps this is an ancient Roman Imperial road, connecting the tumuls.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 8th December 2011
Adrian and Alina Neagoe were at Urzica Mare village, with a good cooperation by phone with Arch. Dr. Florin Ridiche, from Oltenia Museum, who told them about an important artefact found in this area, about 500 metres to the east of Urzica Mare, on the main road between Urzica Mare and Urzicuta, then 100 metres to the north, where there are two tumuls.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 3rd October 2010
There were no artefacts in the region of the Tumuls.
The first Tumul, the eastern one, is about two metres height and diameter about 20 metres, and the other, to the west from T01 is about half a metre high and 20 metres in diameter.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 3rd October 2010
The land is covered with vegetation, and is used for agricultural activities by private people.
where the two Tumuls are. No artefacts were found near the Tumuls.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 3rd October 2010
Documentation for the site.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 3rd October 2010
South of Urzicuţa village are two Tumuls, at the GPS points:
43.99215°N 23.52066°E Diameter = 20 m Height = 2 m
43.99297°N 23.51705°E Diameter = 10 m Height = 1 m
These are situated 2.5 km NW from Baile Ionele Lake, and 2.5 km from Urzicuţa village.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 18th September 2010
Adrian, Alexandru, and Alexandra (a friend of Alexandru) were in the area of the Tumuls from Urzicutza village, where Adrian found a Roman site as well as another from the Bronze Age, as noted in the Alexis Aquae project. They made a new search in the area, not very far from Baile Ionele Lake.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 6th November 2010
Ancient pottery has been found here, but it is important to note that some are from Roman times.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 18th September 2010
Also, the entire field, starting from Getic Podis at the north until the Danube River to the south, is full of Tumuls and a lot of sites, many of them from the bronze / iron ages.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 18th September 2010
General plan of the Baile Ionele Lake, Urzicuta village, Dolj County.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 28th August 2011
GPS Points map for Tumuls and sites in the Afumati-Urzicutza-Giurgita-Barca/Dolj Area.
Photo: Adrain Gheorghe 28th August 2011
Urzicutza new site.
Photo: Google Earth 28th August 2011
Urzicutza Tombs Highway
Photo: Google Earth 28th August 2011
There are a lot of Tumuls in the field between Getic Podis and the Danube River, from all ages.
These are another two Tumuls, between the eastern part of Afumatzi village and the right bank of the Baboia River.
There is still a lot of grass in the fields, so it is difficult to find artefacts in the area.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 18th September 2010
This may be a Tumul. It is 1.5 km north of Boureni village, near the road between Boureni and Cioroiu Nou villages, also near the railroad from Craiova to Calafat.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 18th September 2010
Dr Dorel Bondoc is not very sure about this Tumul, but future searches will give us more data about it.
The location is at 44.030591°N 23.43141°E, and it is about 4 metres in height and more than 20 metres in diameter.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 18th September 2010
Documentation for the site.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 3rd October 2010
Dr Gheorghe, Alexandru Gheorghe, and Dr Alina Bologa went to the Baile Ionele tumuls area, to continue the AQUAE project. This huge area of tumuls, which we have not seen the like of before, may prove the existence of an archeological site nearby, other than Barca and Cioroiu Nou.
We have named the area AQUAE, because we have the geo-thermal lake Baile Ionele, the Baboia River, and many, many other lakes around the village of Urzicuta.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 11th September 2010
There was also discovered, to the south of the main line of tumuls, what may have been a dirt road, which may explain the position of the tumuls along it.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 11th September 2010
A few artefacts were found in the tumuls area, but all came from prehistory, not from the time of the Romans, which is what was expected.
Also, on this day was found four other new tumuls, placed to the north of the main line of tumuls, and perhaps between the two groups of tumuls may lie the archeological site which the AQUAE team have long searched for.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 11th September 2010
An annotated map from Google Earth.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 11th September 2010
GPS points for the area.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 11th September 2010
Adrian and Alexandru went to the Baile Ionele Lake region to visit the tumuls of this area.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th April 2011
Under these tumuls or earth burial mounds are sleeping ancient warriors, slumbering still in the rich black earth of the region.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe 15th April 2011
The tumuls are shown in this Google Earth image.
Photo: Google Earth 28th August 2011
There are a lot of ancient Tumuls in the Oltenia area, especially in the southern part of it.
On the road from Radovan to Calafat there are a few Tumuls, near the main road, placed here in order, using the GPS points, which are close to the Tumuls.
T 01 on the right side of the road to Calafat, 44.13295° N 23.43853° E, Alt 131 metres.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 23rd May 2010
T 02 and T 03 Tumuls are at 300 metres distance on each side of the main road.
44.02858° N 23.12875° E, Alt 70 metres.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 23rd May 2010
T 04, T 05 and T 06 Tumuls are more than 500 metres distance from the road, on the right side of the main road to Calafat.
GPS reading: 44.01510° N 23.07580° E, Alt 69 metres.
There must be a lot of these ancient tombs/graves/barrows in the Oltenia area, so a future problem for the Alexis team will be a list of those tumuls, even though they come from many periods, the bronze age, the Roman era, and so on.
There is no book about all the tumuls in Oltenia.
Photo: Adrian Gheorghe, 23rd May 2010
