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JANOTH POZZA
JANOTH - GIANOT nickname of a Magnabosco family

Janoth the name Janoth-Gianot would be the Magnabosco JANOTH family owner of the bordering land; JAAN means "part of a field". It is located in the Rautele area meaning "little ronchetto" along the Antica Strada del Costo here called Strada Comunale di Roncalto from RUNCARE "to cut and cultivate woodland". The district with the Marcabisa pastures meaning "border meadows" is divided between Asiago and Roana.
The mountain pasture pools are small artificial basins in beaten earth between 50 and 100 cm deep created in the pastures to conserve rainwater collected by surface runoff or through small ditches from the surrounding meadows and roads.
Generally, the pools exploited the natural depressions and the morphology of the land, assuming mostly a circular shape. They were waterproofed by spreading layers of clay mixed with beech leaves beaten by hand and trampled by cattle. They were often surrounded by limestone slabs, stoan platte or dry stone walls.
The Janoth pool, created like others on the public use site of the ancient road that goes from Mosson to Asiago, was used to water the flocks in the "montegare" and "desmontegare" of the mountain pastures, avoiding interference with the neighboring pastures.
The pools are environments of biodiversity ideal for the reproduction of frogs, toads, newts and salamanders. Equally characteristic are the insects such as dragonflies, dytiscus, water striders and velids that move quickly suspended on the water. It is important to conserve these precious 'islands' of biodiversity, created in a karst terrain, scarce in water. The Pozza dei Janoth was emptied of waste and restored by volunteers from Montagne e Solidarietà APS to preserve its natural environment and historical memory.