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Excavation

  • Castellum Amerinum
  • Seripola
  • Castellum Amerinum
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Viterbo
  • Orte

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Credits

  • 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)

  • Excavation of this site in the 1960’s revealed a settlement, which developed from the 2nd century BC on into late antiquity, with some public buildings including a bath house. However, the edges of the town were never discovered, and so the full extent of the settlement, and its role in the Tiber Valley, was never totally understood. Microtopography, magnetometry and resistivity survey were all used to investigate the landscape around the excavation area, to try and gain more knowledge about this settlement. The results so far are striking, as the settlement stretched much further along the Tiber than previously thought, with some structures appearing much grander than expected. The survey also revealed the route of the Via Amerina, the tombs that flanked it, and the aqueduct.

  • Martin Millett - University of Cambridge 

Director

  • Simon Keay - University of Southampton

Team

  • Kristian Strutt - Archaeological Prospection Services of Southampton
  • Tim Sly - Archaeological Prospection Services of Southampton

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell'Etruria meridionale
  • The British School at Rome
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Southampton – Archaeological Prospection Services of Southampton

Funding Body

  • Arts and Humanities Research Board

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