Rural Villa at Neerhaaren-Rekem

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Garden

Rural villa at Neerhaaren-Rekem

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Garden Description

The facade of this modest house of a villa rustica near the Meuse river measured 24 m. in length and had two protruding wings joined by a portico (Plan 1). The house was built in the late 1st century A.D. There is evidence for an arbor or pergola next to the house in the form of two rows of postholes arranged diagonally and converging in front of the entrance on the west (circles on plan). Between the rows of posts, each measuring ca. 15 m. in length, and around which some kind of vines or other climbing plants may have been trained to grow, was a small pool.

Plans

Plan 1. Plan of the farm house at Neerhaaren-Rekem with a possible arbor leading to the door and a pool (grey) between the posts of the arbor.

Credit: Plan adapted from De Boe, De Bie and Van Impe 1992, fig. 288.

Dates

Late first century CE

Bibliography

G. De Boe, M. De Bie, and L. Van Impe, "Heerharen-Rekem. Die komplexe Besiedlungsgeschichte einer vor den Kiesbaggern geretteten Fundstätte," in Spurensicherung. Archäologische Denkmalpflege in der Euregio Maas-Rhein, Mainz, 1992, pp. 490-493, fig. 288. worldcat
P. Van Ossel, Établissements ruraux de l'Antiquité tardive dans le nord de la Gaule, Paris, 1992, pp. 297-300, fig. 105. worldcat

Places

Neerhaaren-Rekem Pleiades: 109193

Gardens of the Roman Empire