The main house and the baths of a villa were excavated in 1933-1934 in Hägendorf (to the south-west of Olten), at the locality Santel. The main house measured 41.85 x 41.70 m. Rooms were arranged around a courtyard. A room in the north-west part was identified as kitchen. The baths were erected some 20 meters to the north-east of the main house. They measured 15.50 x 12.50 m. Some of the rooms had a hypocaust.
Plan of the main house. JbSG 8 (1935), Abb. 2.
Plan of the baths. JbSG 8 (1935), Abb. 4.
Literature
Meisterhans 1890, 64; Jahrbuch für Solothurnische Geschichte 7 (1934), 239-241; 8 (1935), 263-278; 9 (1936), 163; 11 (1938), 227; Jahresbericht der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 25 (1933), 109-110; 26 (1934), 52-53; 31 (1939), 94-96; Drack-Fellmann 1988, 408.
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