In Messen, in the south-west part of the canton, buildings of a villa were excavated on several occasions since the 1950's, most recently in the years 2019-2021. Remains of the main house and of subsidiary buildings were found. In the wooden structure E a newborn child had been buried.
Plan of the remains. Tortoli 2022, Abb. 2.
A: main building; B: baths?; C, D, F: subsidiary buildings; E: wooden structure; red: Celtic remains; yellow: early-Mediaeval tomb.
Literature
Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 44 (1954-1955), 115-116; 45 (1956), 72-73; Jahrbuch für Solothurnische Geschichte 28 (1955), 164-165; Archäologie und Denkmalpflege im Kanton Solothurn 3 (1998), 58-83; 26 (2021), 51; Jahrbuch Archäologie Schweiz 105 (2022), 275-276; Tortoli 2022.
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