Borders
The limits of Colonia Raurica can no longer be determined with absolute accuracy, however the approximate boundaries can be determined by examining the extent of Augst in the early middle ages. This would seem to indicate the colony extending from Basel toward the mouth of the Aare, then up the Aare to the mouth of the Sigger below Solothurn, across to the Lüssel, and then back down the Birs to Basel, though this is still conjecture at the moment. New research, based on tiles stamped with the mark of the Vindonissa Legion, indicates some administrative dependence on Vindonissa. This would indicate that the colony reached over the Bözberg toward Frick, with the Thiersteinberg below Frick forming the eastern boundary. The western boundary, as mentioned above, was near the mouth of the Birs, possibly marked by a border station. Early Roman cremation remains found in 1937 by the church in Neuallschwil show that such a post did exist on the main road north (toward Blotzheim) into Alsace. The Colonia Raurica on the whole contained the modern Canton of Basel, the Frick valley, and the eastern Jura of the Canton of Solothurn. The total area of the colony was around 700 km².
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