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Eine domus in einer römischen Provinzstadt: La Fontainotte in Grand (Vosges) - archäologische und archäobotanische Ergebnisse der Ausgrabung 2011

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International audience; Grand, a village situated in the south of the Lorraine region was during Antiquity an important urban centre. In advance of a housing project, a rescue excavation was undertaken by the Institut national de recherches archéologiques preventives (Inrap) in 2011. Several buildings belonging to a domus of the second and the beginning of the third centuries were explored. Their excellent state of conservation allowed an exceptional insight into the everyday life on an urban property of a Roman notable, as for instance the wall decoration in the rooms, or the different heating methods employed in the residential part of the estate. In the service quarters, a very well conserved kitchen and two ice-houses � gure amongst the more spectacular remains. The sediments in the ice-houses were analysed for carpological remains and phytoliths.