A secondary building belonging to a villa was excavated in 1940 in Aeschi (about 10 kilometers to the east of Solothurn) at the locality Dornacker. The work was led by the teacher Walter Flükiger. Amongst the workers were interned Polish soldiers. Another participant was Henri Wild, an Egyptologist.
Registration of Polish interned soldiers by Walter Flükiger. Spycher 1999, Abb. 11.Around 100 AD a wooden building, of which only traces were found, was replaced by a buidling with stone foundations. It measured 22.20 x 27.50 m. The plan is reminiscent of a Gallo-Roman temple, but these are smaller. No roof tiles were found in the central room (6), so it will have been a courtyard (11.50 x 13.60 m.). On the south side was a corridor (1). Traces of a fire were seen. In 1944 a stretch of a road was found nearby.
Plan of the building. Flükiger 1941, Abb. 3.
Amongst the finds were a few glass fragments, terra sigillata, iron objects (a key, parts of locks, parts of door or window fittings, nails) and a silver pendant.
The silver pendant. Flükiger 1941, Abb. 9.
Literature
Ur-Schweiz 4,4 (1940), 66-68; Flükiger 1941; Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 32 (1940-1941), 125-127; Bouffard 1944; Wild 1946; Drack-Fellmann 1988, 319; Spycher 1999.
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