Summary (English)
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. In 1999 a trial trench was opened which revealed the presence of residential structures.
In 2000 open area excavations began which uncovered a Messapian vestibule house with sloped tile roof, internal courtyard with an opus signinum floor and a room with a flat roof supported by a central post. The walls had footings of blocks of carparo or pietra leccese in a few places, and standing structures of mud brick and wooden posts. One corner of the carparo wall formed a plinth made with small slabs of leccese stone. The rooms were of trapezoidal shape. They abutted a layer of sandy fill, which provided drainage, contained to the east by a substantial conglomeration of carparo and limestone blocks.
- Thierry Van Compernolle - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III 
Director
Team
- Rina Margos - Civici Musei Charleroi
- Gian Paolo Ciongoli - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Puglia
- Studente - Liceo classico P. Colonna di Galatina
- Studente - Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III
- Studenti - Università degli Studi di Lecce
Research Body
- Universitè Paul Valery - Centre d’Etude et de Recherche su les Civilisations Antiques de la Mediterranèe - Montpellier III France
Funding Body
- Comune di Soleto
- Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III
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