Recostructions

During the construction of the southern section of the ring road around Bruneck 1981 – 84 the Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Bozen did several rescue excavations. One of these was a house in a field called Puenlandacker.  

The house covers a dwelling space of about 70m² and comprises a large, square living- and working room, a rectangular hall and a smaller, square representation room.

The larger living-room had a wooden floor. The stepped access to the hall, the praefurnium and a bread baking oven which touched the house wall were covered by a sheltering canopy.

The hypocausts were fed through the praefurnium in the western wall of the building. The warm air and the smoke passed through the vaulted hypocausts and the tubuli of the separating wall.

Traces found at the excavations can be dated back to the Mesolithic Period. Our reconstructed house  shows the status quo at around the c 3 A.D., a time when the area was completely under Roman administration.

In c 5^th A.D. the house is inhabited but becomes more and more a ruin. First the hypocausts then the bread baking oven collapse. In the later c 5^th A.D. the walls are partly restored and supplemented with wooden walls. In the passage to the c 6^th A.D. the life standard strongly lowers. Till the c 10^th A.D. the building is  time by time and definitely deserted.