ROMANIAN HERITAGE STONE WITH INTERNATIONAL HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE - THE OOIDAL LIMESTONE FROM MAGURA CALANULUI PRE-ROMAN QUARRY

The monumental structures of Sarmizegetusa Regia, the capital of the Dacian Kingdom, and the ensemble of

fortresses and fortifications around them, erected by the Dacians during the Ist century BC and destroyed by the

Romans at the beginning of the 2nd century AD, were built of ooidal limestone blocks from Magura Calanului hill. The petrographic and optical microscopy analyses have highlighted several limestone varieties differentiated through the mineralogical constituents and physical characteristics.

Starting with 2019, within the RoQ-STONE project, the research is designed to continue in order to provide the first data about the physical-mechanical properties of this stone and a comprehensive description of the oldest antique stone quarry from the Romanian territory.