Böcker av Josep M Nolla

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.

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

Collet Est was a Roman pottery workshop located on the Catalonian coast near Calonge. In active use from the 1st century BC to the middle of the 1st century AD, the workshop was used to produce dolia, local amphora, domestic pottery and building materials. In a later phase the site was reused as a necropolis by the inhabitants of the nearby Roman villa of Collet. This necropolis survived until the 5th century, when the Roman villa was abandoned. The excavation of the site in 2002-2003 revealed 19 Roman furnaces, several rooms and open air spaces where the inhabitants lived and worked, and a kitchen full of a fascinating range of well-preserved artifacts. The excavation also uncovered 30 inhumations with associated grave goods.This book presents an in-depth report of the important rescue excavations carried out by the University of Girona's Institute of Cultural Heritage at Collet Est in 2002.