Mithräum I von Güglingen

A rescue dig of a few days (28.4-7.5.1999) had to be undertaken at short notice to investigate the remains of a Roman and Alamannic settlement on the ’Steinäcker’ and ’Ochsenwiesen’ areas just outside the town of Güglingen, SW of Heilbronn, that were about to be destroyed by clearing and draining work preparatory to the building of an industrial area on the right bank of the River Zaber, which runs to the S. of the town. The finds were so promising that it was decided that each parcel of land should be examined by the archaeologists before sale, to determine the nature of the site (villa rustica, vicus etc…