The purpose of this volume was to bring together two previously published studies on two different archaeological units of the same site.
Unfortunately as the investigations has proven the auxiliary fort area cannot be properly excavated as the alluvial layer a consequence of the numerous floods of the river Alma in 1879 1980 has a thickness up to 2 m..
The rescue excavations following the building of a segment of the motorway A3 Brasov-Bors have led to the discovery of almost the entire area of the archaeological site of Sutor hypothetically identified with the ancient Optatiana mentioned on the Peutinger s Tabula the auxiliary fort the bath complex and the vicus.
Certainly one can ask why we did not proceed from the beginning directly with a book It was all depending on various unpredictable factors such as the area of excavations the length of the period for systematic investigations year the relevance quantity and quality of the numismatic evidence that was going to be collected during excavations the financial support involved to allow first to continue the archaeological investigations second to which scale can the excavations be carried on.
Furthermore the stratigraphic and the numismatic analyses of the two archaeological units the baths complex and the vicus offer the possibility to synchronise the building phases between the baths and the vicus and to include the numismatic evidence in the general statistics of the site tables graphs .
This idea came as the authors have a long experience on what it means to keep searching and bring together information in order to have an overall picture on a subject.
The purpose of this volume was to bring together two previously published studies on two different archaeological units of the same site
