Construction workers cut into a skull and a vessel from a grave while digging trenches at the Augst/Pratteln bus station. After consulting with the construction management, the grave was fully uncovered and documented.

Apart from the damage caused by the excavator around the head area, the skeleton was exceptionally well preserved. The anthropologist's initial findings suggest that the grave belonged to a 30 to 40-year-old woman who was about 1.60 m tall. She was found with two vessels: a jug by her head and a jar with handles by her right foot. Other personal items discovered by the excavation team included a bone hairpin on the woman's head and two bronze arm rings on her left forearm.

The grave was in the so-called northwest burial ground, north of the Roman Basiliastrasse, which connected Augusta Raurica with Basel. Burials took place there between the first and fourth centuries AD. According to preliminary estimates, the woman was buried in the third or fourth century AD. To date, a total of 46 inhumation graves have been discovered in the surrounding area, either in Rheinstrasse or at the Romana church centre site, thanks to excavations conducted in the 1960s and 1970s.

Information about ongoing excavations can be found here: Augusta Raurica | The excavations in Augusta Raurica