Thermae - Roman Bath in Çifllak

The Roman settlement of Çifllak is located near the course of the White Drin, on its left bank. It is bordered to the north by the village of Kramovik, to the east by Guri i Kuq, and to the west by Meqe and Rakovina. The site extends over most of the terrace created by river activity in a quite fertile plain with a favorable geographic position. Research carried out in the first part of our millennium, namely the control excavations of 2001 and the archaeological excavations of 2002 and 2004, identified traces of a residential complex of the Roman period consisting of a Roman dwelling (residential house), other accompanying structures and a thermae, that is, a Roman bath of very large dimensions, where, among other things, parts of the pool area were also documented. The architectural structures and the materials discovered showed that we are dealing with a site of the Roman period of the 1st-4th centuries. The walls were built of stone and brick, bound with good-quality lime mortar; there are rooms where interior plaster – frescoes – was found, along with a waterproofing layer, lime mortar mixed with brick dust.
The rich archaeological material discovered here has a variety and rich typology of local production as well as imported terra sigillata. Various work tools were also discovered, various roof tiles and bricks, kitchen vessels of different sizes and shapes, glassware, metal jewelry, as well as coins, architectural fragments and other artifacts of daily use.
From a chronological viewpoint, the settlement of Çifllak is dated throughout the entire Roman period of the 1st-4th centuries, and two construction phases of this time were identified here. The first construction period is of the 1st-2nd centuries and the second of the 3rd-4th.