Second late-antique fortress at CUT/Xanten(D) ?

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At first glance it looks suspiciously like a larger version of the reductionary late fortlet of Durnomagus.

It does. Thanks for this - very interesting. Does the text (really wish I could read German - again!) give any idea of the relative dates of the two? Presumably one circuit is tetrarchic and the other later (Valentinianic?), but which is which?

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Hi Nathan,
...the postings are not too specific.
Guessworks about dating, -- educated, but guessworks nevertheless.
O.K. -- historians have long been speculating about the existence of another fort before the massive one right in the middle of CUT.
Some of them maintained that it must have been at the site of Vetera II opposite of the Lippe's mouth.
But who knows  -- given the strategic importance of this sites around Xanten and putting into perspective the surprises the nether-german limes along the rhine had for ist researchers even recently--  shouldn't there be "space" for even a third "late" fort/fortlet in this area ??

Greez

Simplex