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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Cornesti-Iarcuri Bronze Age Fortification Alternative Name: Cornești-Iarcuri, CorneştiIarcuri, CornestiIarcuri, Römerschanze (Roman entrenchment))Country: Romania Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Timisoara Nearest Village: Cornesti
Latitude: 45.931944N Longitude: 21.237778E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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mfrincu visited on 31st Jul 2015 - their rating: Cond: 1 Amb: 4 Access: 4 I have visited this place while filming an episode for my show on the first astronomers. On site it is hard to see the site given its size. From within the inner circle the closest earthworks are visible as earth waves near the horizon. The discoverer of the alignment explained me in detail where he took the readings and shot the solstice risings.
The site is situated in the South–Eastern part of the so called Pannonia Plain, in Vinga's high plain area in the vicinity of the Western Carpathian Mountains, at 17km north of the modern town of Timișoara. Radiocarbon analysis results of the first three probes taken from burnt wooden structures from the First wall B Phase of the First Enclosure Corneşti-Iarcuri combined to give a construction date of 1393–1314 BCE (at 68.2% probability), and 1411–1270 BCE (at 95.4%).
The site comprises of 4 circular earth-made enclosures, the largest having a size of roughly 1,218 ha.
Several theories have placed this site in an archeoastronomical context. These include solar eclipses 2,500 years ago and solstice alignments with two remote peaks to the east of the complex.
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