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Coriovallum (Heerlen) S Limburg, Netherlands.
Cortovallio in the Peutinger Table, Coriovallo in the Antonine Itinerary (375.7;
478.6). The town lay at the crossing of two Roman roads: Cologne to Boulogne,
and Xanten to Treves via Heerlen and Aix-la-Chapelle. Scores of pottery kilns
have been found, indicating that it was a center of the coarse-ware industry,
and some of the inhabitants must have been wealthy, judging by the contents of
graves discovered here. Excavations have revealed the remains of a bath (ca. 40
x 50 m), several houses, Roman roads, and the ditches of a late Roman fort.
The bath was built ca. A.D. 50 and altered in the 3d c., probably
because the heating system did not function properly. An inscription discovered
on the site, attests a restoration ca. A.D. 250 by M. Sattonius lucundus (cf.
CIL VIII, 2634), a decurio of Colonia Ulpia Traiana (Xanten). In the first half
of the 4th c. the bath was at least partly destroyed, and the site was incorporated
into the fort by shifting the ditch to the N. The fort lasted until the beginning
of the 5th c.; coins and pottery of the 4th c. have often been found. The older
finds are in the Leiden and Maastricht museums, the newer ones in the municipal
museum at Heerlen.
B.H. Stolte, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Feb 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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