André Lambert Street is located in the La Duana neighbourhood, outside the city of Javea. In this urban space, commercial activity and fishing in the port of ‘La Duana de Javea’ has been carried out for years. Its current configuration is linked to the urban development of the 1960s which increased in successive decades and has not yet ceased.

This important modern urbanisation of the area uncovered a large archaeological site which corresponds to a commercial Roman settlement of an unspecified date in the 2nd century AD. The archaeological materials, recovered in different interventions (in the years 1990, 1993, 1997 and 1998), indicate that the period of occupation could span as late as the 6th century AD. The excavation took place in the eastern sector of André Lambert Street, in the area closest to the sea. This entire area has been drastically altered by the paving works and by urban infrastructure but also by the agricultural use at the end of the 19th century.

The area of the intervention is roughly rectangular, orientated E-W and with a longitude of 120m and a width of 9m in the eastern sector and 4m in the western sector. The works which caused this archaeological intervention consisted of changing the drains and other smaller structures, which resulted in the repaving of the street. Upon excavating to a depth of 1.3m, a thick layer of red clay was uncovered from which some fragments of Roman pottery dating from a wide time period were recovered. They are common ceramics and some sherds of tegulae and dolia.
As had been noted in previous interventions, the Roman materials recovered in this area of the site of La Duana were found in a layer of naturally formed clay. They are sherds originating from the areas of occupation of the settlement, located in the north and south of this street.

(translation by Alex Redmond)