According to the French National Institute of Preventive Archaeology (INRAP), archaeologists unearthed a huge Roman villa on the right bank of the Yonne River, less than two miles from the right bank of the Yonne River or the Aussiodurum in today’s France or the Auxerre in today’s present.
The team dug about four acres in Sainte-Nitasse, part of the larger Burgone-Franke-Comt area.
Although experts have been aware of the site since the 19th century, there was no active excavation until a gravel pit was dug when the ruins were discovered in 1966.
There, they discovered a 7,500 square foot rectangular building with ten rooms, one of which has APSE. The walls are made of rubble, fragments of stone tablets from funerals and cylinders. Inside, the team found the slaughter or floor heating and the space they thought had had mosaics. CE Furniture between the 1st and 4th centuries.
Since then, archaeologists have been exploring the same 43,000 square feet of building, which they now think might be the wing of a larger settlement that will belong to the wealthy, wealthy people.
So far, they have identified a surrounding wall around a 4,800 square foot garden on the west, north and east sides of the building, surrounded by a basin on the north and a fountain on the south. Outside the garden there are many receptions and factories, including possible kitchens. True to Roman life, there are also hot baths on the eastern wings of large buildings.
Among the larger settlements, there seems to be a residential department called pars urbana and a farming sector rusticatraditionally supports owners and managers to oversee residences.
Autesiodurum began in the settlement in the early 1st century AD and became the capital in the 4th century AD. Researchers are currently trying to determine the number of phases the city takes between that time frame. They then plan to study the remains to better understand the daily life within the settlement.
The site is scheduled to open to the public on June 15, an archaeologist-led tour commemorating European Archaeology Day.
