Bone en Bez
Bone en Bez (or Bonabé Dessous) is a proven Roman road between Glovelier and Saulcy in the canton of Jura in Switzerland , which was built in the 1st century AD as part of an extensive road network laid out under the Roman Emperor Claudius .
The route should allow the legions a quick connection to the Limes . A sounding revealed that the fairly straight path consisted of a Roman or medieval stone setting. In connection with this traffic route is the construction of a road that led from Vicus Petinesca ( Studen BE ) to Epomanduodurum ( Mandeure near Montbéliard) and Augusta Raurica ( Augst near Basel ). It ran from Petinesca through the Schüss valley to Sonceboz-Sombeval and then through the rock tunnel at Col de Pierre Pertuis , through Bellelay , Lajoux and Glovelier. Here it forked, one junction led to the Col de la Caquerelle in the direction of Elsgau and Mandeure, another ran eastwards through the Delsberg basin and over the Fringeli pass.
In Bonabé, between Lajoux and Glovelier, a small coin depot with five Roman coins from the 1st half of the 2nd century AD ( Trajan , Hadrian and Faustinus ) was found near the route cut out of the rock . You were likely in a purse that was lost. There may have been a hostel in Lajoux in Roman times. A sinkhole ("Puits Willy"), which was then used as a waste dump and in which Gallo-Roman pottery from the end of the 1st century was disposed of, suggests this .
literature
- F. Schifferdecker, D. Spitale: Cinq monnaies romaines a Glovelier, Bone en Bez. In: Archeology of Switzerland. Volume 10, No. 2, 1987, pp. 67-69.