Lost Heritage. Architectural Replacement of an Atrium and a Courtyard of the Roman Houses of Armea (Allariz, Ourense)

Francisco Conde-Valvís’s so-called “stone treasure” is a set of unique carved stone pieces, such as bases, column shafts, mortar, and decorated fragments (trisqueles rosettes), found during the 2018 excavation campaign in Cibdá de Armea (Allariz, Ourense). They had been piled up re-buried—no records existed to where—at western end Finca A Atalaia, which was excavated 1950s under direction Conde-Valvís began be again 2011. The thorough review graphic textual material available from old excavations allowed us determine original archaeological context pieces. Most these elements belonged atria “Domus Hexasquel” (North house) Rosette” (South house). Once we established origin all elements, especially with aid photographs, it decided reintegrate them into site, increase educational interpretive value Armea, instead burying indefinitely warehouses museum.