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Excavation

  • Prati di San Martino
  • Remanzacco
  • Prati di San Martino
  • Italy
  • Friuli Venezia Giulia
  • Udine
  • Remanzacco

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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 were undertaken to the east (apse area) and west (entrance area) of the church.

    Apse area

    The deposit along the apse side of the church was removed to a distance of 5 m from the apse itself. In the past bones had been found in disturbed layers in this area. The excavation completed the removal of the bones which were studied by Dr. Luciana Travan and her team from the Dept. of Medical research – human anatomy section of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Udine. The bones belonged to the following individuals:
    Adult A: an adult male
    Adult B: right foot and fragment of lower right leg of an adult male
    It is possible that Adults A and B were the same individual
    Sub-adult C: individual of 2/6 years of age
    Adult D: female individual

    The presence of the bones can be explained by a large hole in the apse area, already identified in the previous campaign, used by lark hunters, which must have disturbed a number of burials in the necropolis and is also the cause of the destruction of most of the apse foundations.

    Entrance area

    The excavation removed the archaeological deposit in front of the church’s entrance, revealing the following stratigraphy:

    An inhumation burial (Tomb 20) cut into the alluvial gravel as were most of the tombs in the cemetery. It was in alignment with the rest of the burials in the necropolis (US –1319: cut for the grave of tomb 20; US 1320: fill of tomb 20).

    The burial contained an adult male, 174.1 cm tall and with an estimated age of 30/40 years. An incomplete coarse ware jar had been placed by the cranium in a ritual seen elsewhere in the cemetery (a further 4 tombs contained vases) and in other nearby cemeteries (S. Pietro al Natisone, Cividale, Firmano, Romans d’Isonzo).

  • Sandro Colussa 

Director

Team

  • Luciana Travan
  • Paola Saccheri
  • Elena Braidotti
  • Fabio di Bernardo
  • Stefano Zilli

Research Body

  • Circolo Culturale JFK Kennedy

Funding Body

  • Comune di Remanzacco

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