Storage Pits from the Late Roman Fort by the Rákos Stream Data on the Supply of the Late Roman Army

Abstract

The paper analyses fourteen storage pits unearthed in a Roman fort established by the Danube in the Barbaricum, at the estuary of the Rákos Stream, in today’s District 13 of Budapest. Two types of storage pits were unearthed; their find material and context dated both to the second half of the 4th century AD. The pits, which were most probably used for storing cereals, were not established for commercial purposes but for keeping produce that was part of the supply of the garrison by the Rákos Stream. Similar storage pits (in a Late Roman context and established for keeping military supplies) were also unearthed at the forts of Paks-Dunakömlőd (Lussonium), Ságvár, and Alsóhetény.