Raport arheologic: Poiana/comuna: Ovidiu/județul: Constanța/punct: Centura ocolitoare a municipiului Constanța, sector Ovidiu-Poiana, Km 4+500 - 4+750 (2009)

The rescue excavation conducted in September - October 2009had the aim to obtain archaeological clearance for an area of the future detouring belt of Constanța City. We deal with a sector found approximately between Km 4+500 and 4+750, in the administrative territory of the town of Ovidiu and close to the village of Poiana (about 2.5 km to the NW from its edge). The site was found during the archaeological surveys along the highway. The site in which we conduct our investigation lies about 10 km north of the precincts of the ancient city of Tomis, probably close to the ancient road that used to lead to Histria, a road found two km west of the shore of the current lake Siutghiol. The geomorphological form of the area is steppe, without other differentiating (valleys or terraces), except for the human interventions, as well as the ancient funerary tumuli that marked the road between Tomis and Histria. We conducted nine control sections in the investigated area, sized about 200 x 40 m. In the area mentioned we identified 113 features, 101 of which are pits, and the other 12 are kilns for cooking, large sized deserted quarries, two parallel delimitation trenches situated in the north part of the investigated area, oriented to the NE-SW, and a third trench crossing the sector investigated along the NW-SE direction (almost perpendicular on the first two). We must have conducted our excavation within the sacred area of a local open settlement in the area of influence of the Hellenistic Tomis, judging from the lack of a house, of floor surfaces, with everything that all that involves. Due to their absence, it is plausible. The pottery, mostly Greek, and the two coins discovered, makes it possible to date this site to the 3rd - 2nd centuries BC. At the same time, the large amount of Hellenistic pottery found in the traditional features of the Getic type proves the strong influence exerted by the city in the territory found in its close vicinity.