Vol. 3 No. 13 (2025)
Water Divides – Water Connects: Roman military, commercial and cultural contacts between the Middle Danube Region and the Black Sea

Trimammium: The Roman limes fortress and the necropolis

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  • Nikola Rusev
Nikola Rusev
Regional History Museum, Ruse, Bulgaria
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2025.25

Published 2026-01-30

Keywords

  • Trimammium,
  • Roman,
  • Medieval,
  • fortress,
  • necropolis

How to Cite

Rusev, N. (2026). Trimammium: The Roman limes fortress and the necropolis. Dissertationes Archaeologicae, 3(13), 25–49. https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2025.25

Abstract

The Roman and Late Antique fortress of Trimammium lies roughly 3 km west–north-west of the village of Mechka, Ruse Region. Built on the right (south) bank of the Danube, the stronghold formed part of the Lower Danubian limes for some six centuries. The Egyptian geographer Claudius Ptolemy first recorded the name of the Roman military camp in the 2nd century AD; however, the ruins near Mechka were not associated with Trimammium until the early 20th century (by K. Shkorpil and M. Vankov). Systematic excavations began in 2006–2009 and resumed after a long pause in 2017, 2019, and 2022. Across seven seasons, parts of the fortified area, the defensive system and the necropolis were investigated.

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