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Excavation

  • Marina Militare Americana
  • Gricignano di Aversa
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  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Province of Caserta
  • Carinaro

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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 preliminary trenches dug on the site of the shopping centre looked at the area delimited in antiquity by a large ditch of Republican date that was identified in previous years.
    The levels examined revealed that the site was occupied from the 4th-3rd century B.C. until the end of the Imperial period.

    The earliest occupation phase relates to the scattered nuclei of burials in either tufa built “a cassa” tombs or earth graves. The tomb groups, where recovered, suggested a date somewhere within the 4th-3rd century B.C.

    The trenches were dug at various points in the ditch and the upcast material related to its construction contained large amounts of archaeological material (Campana A black glaze, Dressel 1A and 1B amphorae and dolia fragments). Inside the ditch blocks of tufa of large dimensions were dumped, the building rubble from a sanctuary with at least two temples dedicated to Hercules and Venus Ericina. Part of this complex may now have been discovered in the area north of the ditch, south-east of the crossroads between the eighth cardo of the centuriation and the decumanus. Here, a structure was uncovered that was aligned with the axes of the centuriation, preserved to foundation level and built in stone blocks alternating with tufa ashlars and bricks. This technique suggests a mid Republican date. In the Imperial period a small necropolis with enchytrismos burials was laid out over the demolished building.

    A trench excavated to the east brought to light the decumanus of the centuriation, a beaten earth road on a north-south alignment of which three levels of use were identified. The earliest dated to the mid 2nd century B.C.

    As regards the prehistoric levels, dwellings with complex organisation were identified on the lithoid layer of the Agnano-Monte Spina eruption. This was probably the continuation of the village excavated in previous years, situated just to the north. On the level of the first palaeo-ground surface traces of agricultural organisation came to light.

  • Stefano De Caro - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta 

Director

  • Elena Laforgia - Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta

Team

  • Angela De Filippis - soc. Xenia
  • Francesco Galluccio - Società cooperativa Astra

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici delle Province di Napoli e Caserta

Funding Body

  • Marina Militare Americana

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