In 1995 an emergency excavation was carried out on a Roman Villa known by researches dated back to 1930 but still unpublished. The synthesis of old and recent data allows to distinguish eight phases of evolution of the ancient living conditions on a period spreading out from the first century B.C. till the sixth century A.D. Though the study does not bring any evidence concerning the identification of Saint-Tropez as the town of Athenopolis mentionned by Pliny and Pomponius Mela, it is noticeable that the Plane Trees site was likely to be occupied since the second quarter of the first century B.C., that is to say before the « deductio » of the Frejus colony, and that is has yielded a Greek funerary inscription of the Imperial time. Another ...