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Submitted by mfrincu on Sunday, 09 August 2015  Page Views: 1830

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:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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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.

Earthwork in Romania

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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Re: Cornesti-Iarcuri Bronze Age Fortification by Andy B on Saturday, 14 January 2023
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MFrincu adds: A few interesting articles can be found here (in English):

http://www.arheovest.com/simpozion/arheovest1/53_863_878.pdf
arheovest.com/Archaeoastronomy/Iarcuri/pdf/Afis.pdf


and also in a Youtube video here (narrated in English):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNZiAHx11N8

Another video of excavations:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcW-2KHn3YA
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