In April of this year (2007) a friend of ours, Jack O'Keeffe, was working on assignment in Dacia...err, I mean Romania. He was lucky enough to visit Adamklissi, a former Roman settlement on the Danube about 30 miles from the Caspian sea. Adamklissi was an important settlement as it not only consisted of a fortress and vicus, but was also the site of a magnificent monument, or Tropaeum Traiani, to Trajans Dacian conquest. While only a reconstruction of the original monument exists today, many of the original panels survive and are displayed in the site museum. The panels are important for many reasons. The monument was built by the army itself and is a contemporary of Trajans column and many believe it depicts the army as it really was in the early second century A.D.

Large, high definition images are available if you click on the link above right 'ADAMKLISSI H/D'.

 All photographs courtesy of Jack O'Keeffe.