Villa Rustica (Pièce de Rance)
The Villa Rustica by Pièce de Rance is the remains of a Roman estate near Saint-Léger-sous-Brienne in the Aube department in France .
The remains of the villa were found in the winter of 1957/58. Excavations took place between 1958 and 1973. Various buildings - the manor house, an outbuilding, a garbage pit and the remains of a surrounding wall - were excavated. During the excavations, nine rooms of the actual manor house could be recorded. Two of them were decorated with a mosaic . The walls were partly designed with stucco . Coins in particular show that the villa was inhabited from the first to the fourth centuries. About a hundred meters north of the mansion was another building that consisted of three rooms.
literature
- Laurent Denajar: L'Aube. (= Carte archeologique de la Gaule 10), Paris 2005, ISBN 2-87754-093-6 , pp. 492-493.