Built in the second half of the 5th century AD, the Late Antique walls in this sector recycle the northern front of the Navalia. They were built by obliterating all the openings in the original building with a masonry structure endowed with a face of recycled bricks arranged with great care, incorporating the faces of the piers of the façade of the Navalia. Near the western end of this stretch of the walls, there is a gate (A), still marked by a column fragment in marble reused as a bollard and plugged up in the mid-6th century AD during the Gothic War. The walls then continued, bending at a right angle in a north-south direction, incorporating Castellum Aquae (B).
Section of the Late Antique walls with the plugged gate and a column used as a bollard
(Portus Project)
Section of the Late Antique walls traversing the demolished amphitheatre
(Portus Project)
The Late Antique walls in correspondence with the Cistern
(Portus Project)
Fragments of a marble barrier discovered in the nucleus and collapsed portions of the walls
(E. Gallocchio)
Pillar of the Navalia (at centre) incorporated by the Late Antique walls
(photo: Portus Project)
Late Antique walls against the structures of the industrial Peristilium
(photo: Portus Project)
Nucleus of the Late Antique walls against the Severan Warehouses