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Rural Villa in Winden Am See
Location
Garden
Rural Villa in Winden Am See
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Garden Description
The modest house of this villa rustica is of the so-called corridor type, a type common in the region and already seen at Carnuntum (Fig. 1). It was built around 100 A.D. and occupied until the 4th century.
On the southeast of the house was a vestibule, from which a central corridor departed at a 90 degree angle. This corridor divided the house into two parts of equal width. Two walls at right angles to the house at the northeast enclosed an area in which the excavators found "fine garden soil." This observation allows the reconstruction of a garden, probably a kitchen garden, next to the house (G in Fig. 1).
Plans
Credit: Adapted from Thomas 1964, fig. 107.
Dates
100 AD - 4th century
Bibliography
- E.B. Thomas, Römische Villen in Pannonien, Budapest, 1964, pp. 201-210, figs. 107-10. (worldcat)
- A. Mócsy, Pannonia and Upper Moesia. A History of the Middle Danube Provinces of the Roman Empire, London, 1974, p. 173, fig. 32. (worldcat)