This paper presents the preliminary results of the census of archeological data for the province of Rovigo related to the textile industry in roman times. This research comes from a Phd project that is still ongoing and is a part of a larger research focused on the Roman textiles in Northern Italy started a few years ago by the Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali, University of Padua. Whilst weaving and spinning activities are quite frequent, evidence for shearing is quite rare. The paper also divides the specific characteristics of each class of objects studied in two separate geographic contexts, the urban context of the city of Adria and the rural context of the rest of the Rovigo province
