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Introduction The baths Houses and workshops The temples |
In the 19th century a villa may have been found in the west part of the settlement, consisting of a main house and secondary buildings (nr. 9 on the general plan). Parts of houses and workshops along the main road were investigated during the early excavations as well (4-7). The documentation is wanting. Large concentrations of ceramics have suggested the presence of potteries (6).
Reconstruction of the settlement, seen from the east. The presumed villa is in the background. Kantonsarchäologie Schaffhausen.A small part of the area along the main road was investigated in 1995 and 2000, at the locality Z'underst Wyler (nr. 7 on the general plan). Some of the remains, a cellar, can today be seen in the basement of a modern building.
View of the excavations at Z'underst Wyler in 2000. Photo: Homberger 2013, Abb. 7.
The building with the remains at Z'underst Wyler. Photo: Wikimedia, Gerhard Schuhmacher.The rear part of six buildings was excavated. These were narrow so-called strip houses, between 6 and 12 meters wide and probably up to 26 meters long. The first building phase has been dated to around 80 AD. The earliest buildings were made entirely of wood. After a fire in the late first or early second century they were all rebuilt. Most of the new houses had timber-framed walls resting on stone plinths, one was constructed entirely in stone. Three houses also had masonry semi-basements to the rear. The facade of the houses probably had a porticus. The settlement seems to have been given up in the course of the third century.
Reconstruction of a house. Homberger 2013, Abb. 76.
Reconstruction of the main street. Kantonsarchäologie Schaffhausen.In 2001 a few burials were found to the south of the settlement, at the locality Chochbrunnen (one inhumation and four cremations).
Introduction
The baths
Houses and workshops
The temples
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