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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)

  • In the area destined to house the veterinary clinic there was a late Imperial necropolis with burials within amphorae. The necropolis obliterated what was probably a villa rustica. On the site where the shopping centre will stand, there was a system of beaten earth roads with two main axes. The larger crosses the entire area from north to south, whilst the smaller, in the northern half, runs approximately from east to west. Other late Roman burials in tufa “a cassone” tombs were present in the north-west sector. These probably related to a small agricultural settlement of which only traces were found.

    Excavations continued on the Bronze Age village in the southern part of the zone, on the so-called palaeo-ground level III, revealing an oval hut (15 × 5 m) and the lines of several cart tracks on a south-south east/ north-north-west alignment. In the same area eleven burials were identified on the volcanic level of the so-called “pomici umificate”, overlying that of the “Agnano-Monte Spina”.

    Inside the navy “Support Site”, by the crossroads between the VIII cardo, south of the cardo maximus and the I decumanus, west of the decumanus maximus, in the so-called Ager Campanus system, excavation revealed numerous road surfaces. The earliest, on an east-west alignment (circa 7.80 m wide) was a stretch of the VIII decumanus. The small channel running along one of its sides was filled with 2nd-1st century B.C. pottery. The central zone of this area also revealed evidence relating to the Hellenistic period, including several pits and a well filled with a dump of 4th-3rd century B.C. material. A beaten earth road, on an east-west alignment, also came to light, dating from the end of the 4th century B.C. onwards. The 1st century B.C. level was cut in several places by cremation burials, with the remains of ustrina and grave goods comprising terracotta and glass unguentaria.

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

Director

Team

  • Angela De Filippis - soc. Xenia
  • Francesco Galluccio - Società cooperativa Astra
  • Elena Laforgia - Soprintendenza dei Beni Archeologici delle province di Napoli e Caserta

Research Body

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

Funding Body

  • Marina Militare Americana

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