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Excavation

  • Colle Mazéit
  • Verzegnis
  • Castello di Broilatz
  • Italy
  • Friuli Venezia Giulia
  • Udine
  • Verzegnis

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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)

  • The 2010 excavations at Colle Mazéit di Verzegnis continued work in Area VIII (in the eastern entrance area of the fortified settlement on the southern plateau immediately below the tower). The excavation area both inside and outside the Roman structure, situated across the curtain wall, was extended. In particular this year’s work concentrated on the completion of excavations inside the rectangular room. The trenches outside the building were enlarged, both beyond the west side of the room, and beyond the north side, in order to check the continuation of the structural remains excavated between 2005 and 2008. Work also continued outside the south-eastern corner of the room, both close to the south perimeter and the point where it met the curtain wall, and along the eastern perimeter. The medieval tower (Area I) was not excavated this year as work is to continue here on rendering the area visitable (creation of a panoramic walkway, illumination and deforestation).

    As regards Area VII, the chronology and construction techniques of the rectangular room were confirmed. It seems to have been built in the Augustan period, at the same time as the entire village was reorganised. In fact, Area II (quadrangular room-tower abutting south-east corner of curtain wall) and Area VI (paved room relating to phase IV) were restructured at the same time. Inside the structure lying across the curtain wall an interesting drainage channel was excavated. The internal wall of this structure was seen to be the continuation of the pre-Roman curtain wall, probably linked to the earlier walled structures to the west of the rectangular room and cut by the building of the latter, whose levels produced fragments of Bronze Age pottery.

    This year the internal curtain wall was completely uncovered. It had been reinforced by a make up, whilst to the west and north beyond the sides of the room, where the earlier curtain wall had already emerged, new walls came to light which seemed to belong to residential structures. Late Republican and early imperial material, disturbed by the various alterations, were found in the surface layers. The latter also produced a stone axe-hammer, probably of late Neolithic date, prehistoric pottery, a fragment of a La Tène bracelet in green glass paste (2nd century B.C.) and the tang of an iron spearhead. These finds confirmed the continuation of the settlement already attested by the excavations in Area VI. Work is soon to begin on roofing-over Area VII.

  • Maria Gloria Vannacci 

Director

Team

  • Alvise Barbieri
  • Anita Pinagli
  • Claudia Bortolussi
  • Giovanni Filippo Rosset - Società Friulana di Archeologia
  • Marco Rocco
  • Massimo Fumolo
  • Massimo Lavarone
  • Michael Beck De Lotto
  • Michele Camerin
  • Sveva Russo
  • Gabriella Petrucci - Università di Perugia
  • Luca Villa
  • Società Friulana di Archeologia

Research Body

  • Società Friulana di Archeologia-Sezione Carnica

Funding Body

  • Comune di Verzegnis
  • Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia

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