This 3D visualisation of the Late Roman castellum at Maastricht is both a public‑facing experience and a research instrument. It brings together excavation data, regional case studies, historical narratives and digital modelling to explore how a fortified river crossing might have looked in the time of its initial construction. Like any archaeological reconstruction, it is provisional, reasoned and open to revision. Presenting this work as a 3D scholarly edition enables viewers to trace the project’s evidentiary base and, where desired, to follow the research further into excavation reports, regional syntheses and broader studies of the late Roman frontier.
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