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Excavation

  • Carmignano
  • Pietramarina
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  • Italy
  • Tuscany
  • Florence
  • Capraia e Limite

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • Excavations continued mainly in the south area – in the zone in front of the town walls (room μ) and the adjacent space (room λ). Work was also undertaken in building β situated in the northern part of the settlement.

    - Room μ: in the flat area outside the southern sector of the town walls, facing the “Casino dei Birri”, the collapse of the long, east-west wall running almost parallel to the town walls was removed. Below, a row of large, dressed sandstone slabs was exposed. They appeared to be on the same alignment and presumably related to the monumental reconstruction which involved the entire southern zone of the site, probably in the late Republican period, and for which evidence had already appeared at about 20 m further east (rooms ξ and ε).
    To the south, other slabs and dressed blocks, with fragments of decorative architectural cornices, seemed uprooted from their original positions. This was probably the result of the repeated robbing to which the site was subjected when construction material for building the medieval church of San Giusto removed.

    - Room λ: with the aim of defining the function of structures relating to the ancient phase of the terracing in the south area (room θ), investigations continued in the room which developed along its north side.
    Previously, a Hellenistic occupation level had been uncovered in this zone. This was partially covered by the collapse of a porch roof, circa two metres in depth, and a series of post holes for the supporting structures. It was necessary to extend the excavation area towards the north and north-west in order to intercept the continuation of the two structures emerging along the east and west sides of the roof structure.

    In 2011 excavation of this extension continued. This involved the removal of the upper layers of fill in post-Classical postholes and a substantial layer of various sized stones, perhaps a dump to level the area. This layer overlay several layers of very limited extension which were probably colluvial in origin. Below were two, almost horizontal, make ups probably relating to the lay-out of the external spaces. These were similar in composition and stratigraphic position to the levelling and reclamation of the area identified in earlier campaigns overlying the layer of collapse and burning of the dolia deposit.

    - Building : Excavation continued of the enormous collapse which covered – and still partially covers – room II of the building situated in the northern, and highest part, of the site.
    The stones constituting the structure were very large, however, it was agreed to continue excavating (with great care) in order to try to identify the line of the walls’ collapse. While the part between the south and west walls appeared somewhat rearranged, in the southern part, evidence was documented which probably related to a Hellenistic phase. This post-dated the original lay out of the building, which has yet to be exposed. The excavation showed the considerable height of the walls, preserved at the highest point (south-west corner) to over one and a half metres.

  • Maria Chiara Bettini - Museo Archeologico Comunale di Artiminio, Comune di Carmignano 

Director

Team

  • Andrea Di Castro

Research Body

  • Comune di Carmignano
  • Comune di Carmignano, Museo Archeologico di Artimino

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