Roman villa at Port
The Roman villa near Port was a generously and luxuriously furnished manor ( villa rustica ) , the solid buildings of which were built in the 1st century AD. It was located on a terrace at the crossing Weiherweg / Hüeblistrasse in Port , Canton of Bern . It was located near the waterways of Lake Biel and Zihl , as well as on the north-south and east-west transversal that connected it to the regional center of Petinesca and the cities of Aventicum in the south-west and Vindonissa and Augusta Raurica in the north-east.
The oldest Roman traces date from the time around the birth of Christ, which is why the villa can be counted among the first in German-speaking Switzerland . A storage pit dates back to Celtic times. It is the last remnant of a Celtic settlement that was once on the area of the villa.
The villa had bathrooms that were heated by underfloor heating ( hypocausts ). The definable rooms contained a changing area ( apodyterium ), a warm bath ( caldarium ) with a semicircular apse , a sweat bath ( laconicum ) and a bath with cold water.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roman villa uncovered in Port - open excavation day. Media release from the Archaeological Service of the Canton of Bern. In: Website of the Canton of Bern, June 21, 2016, accessed on September 10, 2016.
Coordinates: 47 ° 6 '50.3 " N , 7 ° 15' 11" E ; CH1903: 585 916 / two hundred and eighteen thousand one hundred and twenty-six