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Monument type
Villa Rustica, farm with winged-corridor-villa and outbuildings
Survey data
Area investigated: 1536 m2
Resolutions: 4 MP/m2 (a = 0,5 m)
Array configuration: Twin-probe
Measuring instruments: Lippmann 4point light MC
Imaging software: SURFER (Golden Software)
Survey period: 16.11.2015
Comments
Surrounded by geological compactions on the north-west and south-west edge of the survey area, which are presumably sandstone rocks, the main building of the Roman farm is sufficiently recognizable in the center of the area.
A slight correction of the pixel alignment towards the building orientation brings the foundations of the portico and risalites, which lie in one line, more to the fore.
Several preserved floors and/or hypocausts (light brown) can be seen in the mansion (solid black).
The outbuilding (dotted black)
in front of the eastern risalite could be addressed as a small bath.
Some ancient water pipes and/or modern drainages run through the survey area in a west-east and north-south direction (light blue).
From the area of the sandstone rocks to the south-west, several lanes showing low electric resistivity seem to "flow" down the slope (purple) in the direction of the main building. These water-bearing layers belong to a spring horizon, the center of which emerges from the ground about 70 m to the west.