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Vicus of Bonna at the Gronau
Vicus Bonnensis (ad Gronoviam)
VicusGermania Inferior · Gronau, Bonn, GermanyBuilt 90 CE
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A second, larger civilian settlement, distinct from the canabae hugging the fortress walls, developed further upstream along the Rhine in the area of modern Gronau. Excavations there uncovered five timber-and-stone strip houses roughly 10 by 30 meters with street-facing shopfronts, alongside evidence of coin counterfeiting, craft production, and tavern life. The exact founding date isn't precisely fixed in the excavation reports, but the settlement was clearly flourishing by the early 2nd century, a plausible feature of the Trajanic-Hadrianic townscape around Bonna.
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