Praid

Praid is a commune with the equal name in Harghita County , Transylvania , Romania. The archaeological excavations made in this region have discovered materials that testify to the presence of guy here from the oldest instances so, on the bank of the Mesteacan brook, changed into determined the fragment of a stone ax that dates from the start of the bronze age . On the top of St. Ladislau and on the pinnacle of Three Hills, there was observed an ax, in every vicinity, inside the shape of a heart belonging to the Cotofeni lifestyle .

Between the streams "Iuhodul Mic" and "Ulmiste", on a plateau may be visible the ruins of a medieval castle The archeological researches made at the plateau discovered the traces of a few Dacian materials. Volker Wollmann in his monograph on mining factors out the presence of a Roman fortification inside the on the spot vicinity of salt deposits. Roman camp Praetoria Augusta from Inlăceni defended the salt mines at Praid.