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The Roman Villa Horta da Torre is located in Cabeço de Vide (Fronteira, Portugal), close to the course of the possible Route XIV of the Antonine Itinerary, which connected the capital of Lusitania, Augusta Emerita, with the port city of Olissipo and was thus perfectly integrated into the various distribution networks. Although this site had already been mentioned by several authors, it was only after its relocation in 1998 that it was explored in greater depth, and the first surveying work took place in 1999 as part of the "Levantamento Arqueológico do Concelho de Fronteira" project.

As a result of these extensive (since 1999) and intensive (2018-2019) surveying campaigns, we now have a large collection of terra sigillata. Although these imported ceramics are not stratigraphically contextualized, they provide us with important data about the consumption of the people who inhabited this place, as well as about their trade relations.

The ceramic material from Horta da Torre published so far comes mainly from the excavation work begun in 2012, particularly from the area of the stibadium. The progress of both field and laboratory work has allowed us to realise that the residential area of this villa was abandoned at the end of the Imperial period and reoccupied in Late Antiquity. However, there is still little published data on the phases before these two periods, which will change with the presentation of the study of the terra sigillata found during the survey campaigns.

The aim of this work is to contribute with new information to the study of this site, both in terms of chronology and in terms of the trade contacts or even the preferences of those who bought the pottery we are studying today. This paper presents the study of the terra sigillata from the surveying work at Horta da Torre, comparing this new data with existing data.