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Excavation

  • Shën Koll’s fortification
  • Kepi i Stillos
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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 enclosure at Shën Koll (St. Nicholas) on the Cape of Stillo headland was selected for further small-scale excavations, in the summer of 2007. Shën Koll comprises a large rectangular enclosure consisting of the remains of low rough-built walls interspersed with natural rock formations. One trench was dug inside the enclosure and a further six on natural terraces on the southwestern slopes below the enclosure. The stratigraphy encountered was typically limited to thin topsoil above undifferentiated rendzina soils between 0,30-0,50m deep overlying bedrock. The majority of trenches produced ceramics, along with a few lithics, and although the deposits appeared to be secondary, eroded contexts, some stratification of both deposits and ceramics was evident. Most importantly, diagnostic sherds of both Bronze Age and Iron Age date were recovered that will be beneficial in defining the site’s chronology
      In the hilltop trench a stone line pit was excavated, and alongside ceramic spindle whorls, beads and flint scrapers found at Shën Koll during the season of excavation in 2006, suggest manufacture at the site. A small assemblage of faunal remains revealed the presence of dogs and consumption of domesticated cattle and sheep/goats with only a single specimen of wild food (boar).

    Director

    • Ilir Gjipali - Instituti i Arkeologjisë Tiranë, Departamenti i Prehistorisë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology, Department of Prehistory)
    • Richard Hodges - ICAA-International Center for Albanian Archaeology / IWA-Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia

    Team

    • Sarah Lima - University of Cincinnati

    Research Body

    • IWA - Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia
    • Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)

    Funding Body

    • Butrint Foundation
    • Packard Humanities Institute

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