ANGUSTIA
(Bretcu) Covasna, Romania.
Roman camp and civil settlement, at the Oituz Pass, N
of Breţcu. The ancient name of the settlement is mentioned by Ptolemy (3.8.4). The camp (188 x 141 m)
had a wall, well preserved, with round corner towers.
The baths are 100 m from the camp. Cohors I Hispanorum and Cohors I Bracaraugustanorum were stationed here.
In the civil settlement, the finds include Dacian ceramics and the military diploma of a veteran from classis
Flavia Moesica, dated June 14, 92 (
CIL XVI, 37).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
R. Vulpe, “Angustia,”
In amintirea lui
C. Giurescu (1944) 551-59; M. Macrea, “Despre rezultatele cercetărilor întreprinse de şantierul arheologic
Sf. Gheorghe—Breţcu—1950,”
Studii şi cercetări de istorie veche 2.1 (1951) 287-96; D. Tudor,
Oraşe tîrguri şi sate în Dacia romană (1968) 279-80.
L. MARINESCU