i have searched exhaustively for the name of this feature

http://maps.google.com/local?f=q&hl=en&q=R...62,0.068836&t=k

http://216.109.132.28/test.jpg
http://216.109.132.28/test1.jpg

there are 4 complete circuits of walls... over 5000acres! enclosed
for a total dimension 3.5 miles long x 2.5 miles wide
the 2 inner most walls are 300feet in cross section!

comparatively, its bigger than the walled city of rome or constantinople @300ad

if it was roman, i think it would be recorded. infact, its not on the cultural memory sites of romania nor hungary

it is called romer schanze [roman earthworks] on this map
http://www.dvhh.org/mercydorf/info/images/...orf_Zsadany.jpg

ideas? anyone? its not attilas stan of priscus? is it?

Attila was quite a guy. I've studied him for years.

is it preposterous to attribute this to him?

What do you mean by 'attila's stan of priscus?'

I don't think it's connected to the Huns since their empire was only a major power for a relatively short period of time. While they were certainly booming, I don't think they would have need for a city of this magnitude.

priscus==========================
http://www29.homepage.villanova.edu/christ...aas/embassy.htm

P.fr .9 Having crossed rivers mighty indeed—namely the Tisia, Tibisia, and Dricca—we came to the place where long ago Vidigoia, the bravest of the Goths, perished by the treachery of the Sarmatians. (This man, also called Vidicula and Indigoia, was one of the subjects of early Gothic lays, and judging by the mention of the Sarmatian-Gothic war he probably died in 331-32 or 334, when the two tribes were fighting during Constantine's reign. The term Sarmatians here indicates a Teutonic people who later included the Vandals, dwelling to the north of the Goths and usually allied to Rome.) Not far from there we reached the village where king Attila was staying, a village, I say, like a very large city, in which we found wooden walls made with smooth planks, their jointure imitating solidity to such an extent that the union of the boards could scarcely be seen by close scrutiny. You might see there dining rooms extended to a liberal circumference and porticoes laid out in all splendor. The area of the courtyard was bounded by a huge circuit wall so that its very size might show it to be the royal palace. This was the house of Attila, the king who held the whole barbarian world, and he preferred this dwelling to the cities captured by him.


from DEATH OF BUDA A Hun Legend ========================
http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/szint/human/sz...html/epics1.htm


As from the distance one approaches a hive of bees,
he sees a few insects flitting here and there - a
thickening swarm, a darting dance, and then a buzz
and zoom.

The hive booms; in and out the door a thousand
shining bees are crawling back on back. So teem
the swarms of busy men as Attila's town looms up
ahead.

Buda's camp, I think, is nothing compared to these
crowds that come and go and these palaces of Attila
that stretch for miles into the fields, towering
into the heavens.

This is a great range where unbroken stallions run;
a vast field betwixt where warriors train; palace on
corral and palace on corral - it would be hard, indeed,
indeed, to count them all.

At the camp's outer edge stood the servants' tents
with poles of plain fir notched. Farther in, the
tents were finer, the joints fitted smoothly with
a plane.

The palaces of the chieftains are clustered here and
there - so many proud, so many royal homes. Town
within town passes into fields, with green stretches
of distance between.

Women dwell in their secluded towns and rule over
their courts. Krimhilda passes swiftly, if she desires,
over a hanging corridor to her lord Attila's tent.

All this is work of marvellous craft. The awl argues
dead trees into blossoms and new leaves, unlike before,
painted in oil and unfamiliar colors.

The leaves are blood-red, the blossoms gold; branches
twist into hissing dragons where green birds perch
silently, birdlike bells tinkling in their stead.

In the center on a high hill is Attila's tent, the
topmost point shaded by the ancient Turul, tremendous
wings spreading for a flight, and wrought of solid
gold by its maker.

The columns flow to the ceiling, coiling like tendrils
now this way now that, the wood plated with gleaming
gold, and velvet tapestries swelling between.

Interesting. It does seem to describe a large city, with large walls. So does this structure you mentioned earlier geographically fit the description, i.e. is it in the place Priscus mentioned?

interesting theory, any chance the archaeologist will ever take a look?...

it actually fits every description in every account of any nationality.

the romanians don't want it. there are many large ethnic groups that might feel empowered by it being there and romanian land claims are based on the dacian/daco-roman empire so every lei goes to those sites unless its a big mound in the middle of a town and they were all dug years ago and protected.

the application to dig it is online for any archaeologist who might want to dig it. http://www.cimec.ro/e_default.htm

not on their map ... see cornesti
http://www.cimec.ro/scripts/mapserv.exe?MA...x=309&img.y=234


not in their protected list...see timis county
http://www.cimec.ro/Monumente/ListaMonumen...listaMonIst.htm

I'd think such a find would help with tourism... I'm asuming they would like some tourist money?

you'd think so because being romanian is a profession not a nationality. i'll get banned for this.

it is possible its a "forgotten" roman site though... without a test dig to find identifying relics no one will know conclusively.

right someone has to dig it.