1991
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Jean-Daniel Demarez, « La villa gallo-romaine de Fréthun », Revue du Nord, ID : 10.3406/rnord.1991.4690
The Gallo-Roman villa situated in Fréthun appears to have been a small farming facility as only two buildings were made out. The dwelling-place, built at the Flavian period on a site probably already occupied, is the very example of a villa with a porch-façade. If the baths, added in the Ilnd century at the back of the house, testify of many alteration phases, the living quarters underwent but very few transformations. At a probably later date, a facility, of the «drying-place» type, was designed in front of the porch. The B-building also featured a structure of this type. The site seems to have remained in use down to the end of the IVth, or the beginning of the Vth, century, when it was definitely abandonned.