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Under what are now parts of Faverges and the outlying hamlet of Viuz, the Gallo-Roman town of Casuaria marked an important stop along the Turin-Geneva Roman via, as can be seen in the famous Peutinger Table (the last surviving road map and travel atlas from Antiquity). Several Gallo-Roman sites of old Casuaria have been uncovered; the largest site investigated to date is the dig known as Le Thovey, within modern Faverges. At Le Thovey, on the outskirts of ancient Casuaria, archeological digs have been conducted every summer since 1981. The municipality of Faverges has just acquired several acres of land from private owners so that the dig may be extended beyond its current perimeter. Volunteer diggers have uncovered a mansio, (a type of Roman "motel"), complete with Roman baths, peristyle, and outbuildings dating from the 1st-century BC to the 3rd century CE. The mansio and adjacent buildings were apparently put to the torch by a band of roving Alaman raiders in the year 270, as has been attested both by documentary and archeological evidence.

Numerous artifacts from Gallo-Roman times have been found on the site: after the removal of the topsoil layer, clay typical of collapsed rammed-earth (pisé) wall construction was found to cover thousands of roof tiles. The roof tiles themselves lay over pieces of charcoal which were certainly the roof beams burnt in the fire of 270 CE. Beneath the wall and roof rubble, a complete Roman thermal installation was largely in situ: a dressing-room floored in terrazzo, cold, lukewarm and hot bath chambers, the emplacement of the praefurnium/furnace (center photo above), numerous tile stacks (pilettes) that originally supported the concrete floor, and hundreds of tubuli, terra-cotta tubes that served as smoke exhausts and heated the walls of the baths (left photo above). A length of lead pipe was found in its original position, along with numerous fragments of marble facing around the bath area. A water pitcher (right photo above) and bone admission tokens were uncovered near the supposed entrance.

In another area of the dig, across the vestibule that divides the two zones now uncovered, were found the columns of the peristyle. Now partly re-erected, (photo above) it is composed of columns hewn from local stone; the bases and capitals are not perfectly matched, suggesting that these were recycled elements. Next to the peristyle was the kitchen, which was found to contain a large bronze cauldron in excellent condition. Stew bones were found within the cooking pot, compelling evidence that the inhabitants left the premises hastily. The pot is the largest and best-preserved Roman bronze cauldron ever found. It can now be seen on display in the Archeological Museum in Viuz near a legionnaire's hammer, found with part of its wooden handle, (photo below, at time of discovery) and the largest Roman sawblade ever found.

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