Böcker av Josep Casas

Una explotación de época romana en el territorio de Ampurias

This report on investigations carried out at the site of Mas Guso in Gerona, not far from the north-east coast of Spain, reveals a complex site with a series of occupation phases spanning thousands of years.

The present volume on the site of Mas Gusó presents in detail the results obtained during fourteen excavation campaigns, focusing, this time, on the Roman settlement. This complex was built in the late second century BC over an old Iberian settlement, which in turn occupied the space on which an Early Iron Age community had previously settled, following a previous Bronze Age settlement. The Roman complex of Mas Gusó had a military-public function, as a praesidium intended to control the hinterland territories of Emporion and to take part in military actions within the province of Hispania Citerior, beginning with the Late Republic, c. 135 BC, and continuing for several centuries until its disappearance around 280 AD. During the first decades of the Common Era, the complex was probably transformed into a statio, directly linked to the local road network, although it did not lose its military function. The building presents a classical structure, showing a clear Italic influence that is observed repeatedly and with little variation throughout the Empire.En el presente volumen sobre Mas Gusó se exponen extensamente los resultados obtenidos a lo largo de catorce campañas de excavaciones, referidos, en esta ocasión, al establecimiento de época romana. Un complejo levantado hacia finales del siglo II a.C. sobre un antiguo asentamiento ibérico, el cual, a su vez, ocupó el mismo espacio en el que anteriormente se estableció una comunidad de la primera Edad del Hierro, sucesora de otra de la Edad del Bronce. El conjunto romano de Mas Gusó tuvo un carácter público-militar, un praesidium relacionado con el control del hinterland ampuritano y con las operaciones militares en la Hispania Citerior, desde la Baja República, hacia el 135 a.C., prolongándose su existencia a lo largo de los siglos, hasta desaparecer alrededor del año 280. A partir de las primeras décadas de nuestra era, probablemente fue transformado en una statio, vinculada directamente a la red viaria local, sin perder su función militar. Adopta una estructura clásica, de clara filiación itálica, que se repite con pocas variaciones a lo largo de todo el Imperio.

Presents finds of Roman oil lamps from North East Spain. Spanish text.

A study of Late Roman iron artefacts from the north east of the Iberian Peninsula.

Abstract is in English

Written by Josep Casas & Victòria Soler.Contributions by Lídia Colominas, María Saña and Joan S. Mestres.A report on extensive excavations at the rural complex of Saus (near Girona, eastern Spain), the findings of which attest to a scattered occupation and characterized by a wide range of materials found in a sequence of pits dating from the Early and High Iberian periods. Among the finds were the bases of four oil presses related to the polis of Emporion 10 km away. The information collected allows the tracing of the evolution of the material culture of the region and the highlighting of a practically unknown dimension of rural life from the 6th to 3rd centuries BC.