| dc.description.abstract | The Late Roman fort in Tokod is situated 2.5 km south of the River Danube in Komárom-Esztergom
County, Hungary. Contemporary literary sources mentioned the fort as Gardellaca/Cardabiaca. The first
excavations were carried out by András Mócsy in the 1960s. He opened several trial trenches inside and
around the fort, and managed to uncover defensive structures and parts of the internal layout. However,
large parts of the internal area remained unexplored until recently.
A team from the Department of Archaeology of University of Pécs worked on site between 2008 and 2011
in the framework of the project of the Danube Limes. In november 2015 the Department of Archaeology
and the Archaeological GIS Laboratory of Pázmány Péter Catholic University restarted archaeological
research in the fort. Initially, ground penetrating radar surveys were carried out in 2015 and 2016.
The GPR surveys covered 80% of the internal area of the fort and revealed the ground plan of a dozen
of hitherto unknown buildings and provided data on almost the entire internal layout of the fort.
The trenches of the 2016 archaeological excavations were laid out on the basis of the aforementioned GPR
surveys. The excavations confirmed the GPR results and helped to refine the stratigraphy and chronology
of one of the buildings. The GPR survey maps will be used for the planning of our future research. | en |
