MÄHREN ZUR ZEIT DER MARKOMANNENKRIEGE. FORSCHUNGSSTAND UND NEUE PROBLEME

The paper is devoted to the body of archaeological evidence relating to the Roman military presence at the time of Marcomannic Wars in the area north to the Danube and in Moravia (Czech Republic). It provides a summary of new information during the successive grant projects in the past twenty years. Special attention has been paid to the results of the long term excavations of the Roman fort at Mušov nearby Mikulov and it its neighbourhood. Furthermore the paper tries for a reappraisal of the dating and significant of the well-known princely grave discovered in the eighties of the past century in the vicinity of Roman fort and reveals new views on the problem of the aftermath of the wars and its chronology.