"Roman Rijckholt" at St. Geertruid - Steenbergen (community of Eijsden - Margraten, the Netherlands). An update after recent finds.
After many finds from the Roman period have been noticed at a field north of the Schoone Grub as part of the Neolithic flint mine complex of Rijckholt, many other finds in an adjacent field show clear evidence for a Roman building, probably a villa. The field- name St. Geertruid - Steenbergen has been clarified as belonging to the remains of one or more Roman buildings that have been located on a flattened ridge north of the ravine Schoone Grub. From the various finds it is possible derivate some information about the Roman building that was located here. 1 The building was, like all Roman vil... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | report |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2019 |
Schlagwörter: | Roman / villa / steenbergen / publication / prospections / settlement / habitation area |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26847361 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
Powered By: | BASE |
Link(s) : | https://zenodo.org/record/3359918 |
After many finds from the Roman period have been noticed at a field north of the Schoone Grub as part of the Neolithic flint mine complex of Rijckholt, many other finds in an adjacent field show clear evidence for a Roman building, probably a villa. The field- name St. Geertruid - Steenbergen has been clarified as belonging to the remains of one or more Roman buildings that have been located on a flattened ridge north of the ravine Schoone Grub. From the various finds it is possible derivate some information about the Roman building that was located here. 1 The building was, like all Roman villas, covered with red roof tiles, so called tegulue and imbrices. 2 There was at least some part of the building that had window pane glass (forming a bath house?) 3 The pottery shards are suggesting a local Roma villa rustica/ urbana 4 Some roof tile parts and some pottery shards carry fire marks, pointing at a fire 5 The structure(s) is/ are located over a minimum of 80 - 100 m based on pattern of roof tile finds We might speak of a Roman Rijckolt at the Neolithic flint mine complex. The report also briefly discusses the possibility that the villa could have had a relationship with Roman viticulture. Any relation with viticulture is just an idea, based on the special position the villa had in the landscape.