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- The Fondo Fontanella is a large area of communal land in the locality of Fontanelle situated in the northern outskirts of Soleto.
In 1998 the study of the first Messapian curtain wall, situated on the northern edge of the Fondo Fontanella, was completed
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- The Fondo Fontanella is a large area of communal land in the locality of Fontanelle situated in the northern outskirts of Soleto.
- A Messapian burial in an “a cassa” tomb of leccese stone slabs with a covering of carparo stone slabs was excavated. It contained, in primary deposition, a male adult in a supine position with related grave goods (Messapian bell-krater decorated with veget... Read More
- Excavation of the ossuaries relating to the Messapian burial examined in 2001 was completed and continued on the Messapian houses, defining the spatial organisation of the rooms uncovered in 2000 (cooking stand, housing for furniture, structures for suppor... Read More
- Excavations continued on the Messapian residential complex revealing the beaten floors of the third and fourth rooms and identifying numerous foundation walls in squared carparo blocks and a roof collapse. Among these structures part of a beaten floor of... Read More
- The excavation of the Messapian residential complex was completed. It comprised two wings forming an L-shape, the east wing having three rooms was the residential part of the complex, the north wing was used for production activities as attested by a large... Read More
- Several trenches were opened with the aim of studying the construction techniques of the Messapian residential complex. The majority of its foundations were in direct contact with rock outcrops or the sterile clay layer. Part of the rooms on the northern s... Read More
- 1600 BC
- 850 BC
- 200 BC