The Roman villa of Outeiro de Polima ( pt, Villa Romana de Outeiro de Polima) is a
Roman villa
A Roman villa was typically a farmhouse or country house built in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, sometimes reaching extravagant proportions.
Typology and distribution
Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) distinguished two kinds of villas n ...
in the
civil parish
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of
São Domingos de Rana
São Domingos de Rana () is a Freguesia, civil parish ( pt, Freguesia (Portugal), freguesia) of the Portugal, Portuguese concelho, municipality of Cascais, part of the Greater Lisbon subregion. The population in 2011 was 57,502, in an area of 20.36 ...
, in the
Portuguese
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municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
of
Cascais, dating from the 1st to 6th centuries AD.
History
The administrative area of Cascais has been the centre of multiple testaments to active human occupation in various millennia, especially the Roman era, associated with the construction of industry and villas.
The town was constructed during the height of Roman influence within the Iberian peninsula,
roughly between 1st and 6th century.
But, the collection of archaeological artefacts (silex, weights and ceramics) point to the Paleolithic and Middle Age settlement, with studies by archaeologists Guilherme Cardoso and José d'Encarnação demonstrating several generations of agricultural stratification.
Outeiro de Polima has been a site important archaeological interest, due to the existence of a villa, whose vestiges extend to ''Cabeço do Mouro''.
In addition, there are numerous fragments of construction materials, imbrex, tiles and amphorae, that confirms the existence of a local villa, reinforced by opus signinum pavement stratification.
Additionally, there are proto-historic discoveries of industrial lithic silex and ceramics from late Bronze Age.
Sometime around 1913, Virgílio Correia discovered the Roman outpost.
New archaeological campaigns were undertaken in 1973, under the direction of archaeologist Guilherme Cardoso, where they discovered a large quantity of artefacts and material.
See also
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Olisipo
Municipium Cives Romanorum Felicitas Julia Olisipo (in Latin: ''Olisippo'' or ''Ulyssippo'' ; in Greek: ''Ὀλισσιπών'', ''Olissipṓn'', or ''Ὀλισσιπόνα'', ''Olissipóna'') was the ancient name of modern-day Lisbon while part of ...
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Roman villa of Freiria
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Roman villa of Alto do Cidreira
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Castro de Leceia
External links
Villa Romana de Outeiro de Polima , Cascais Cultura
Lisboa Romana - Roman villa of Outeiro de Polima
References
Notes
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* {{citation, last=Paço, first=Manuel Afonso do, title=Revisão dos problemas do Paleolítico, Mesolítico e Asturiense, Congresso do Mundo Português, Lisboa, 1940 - Memórias e Comunicações apresentadas ao Congresso da Pré e Proto-História de Portugal (I Congresso), year=1941, location=Lisbon, Portugal, language=Portuguese
Outeiro Polima
Archaeological sites in Lisbon District
São Domingos de Rana
Properties of Public Interest in Portugal
Buildings and structures in Cascais