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Excavation

  • a nord dell’ex Cava Torvisabbia
  • Castions delle Mura
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  • Italy
  • Friuli Venezia Giulia
  • Udine
  • Bagnaria Arsa

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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)

  • Following the reopening of trench C, an east-west trench at a right angle to that of the previous year was opened.
    A particularly interesting situation emerged and was better defined with respect to 2009.

    The US 37 was seen to extend at the base of the known stratigraphic sequence. This was a surface comprising fragments of prehistoric baked clay and occasional fragments of Bronze/Iron Age pottery, dumped and compacted in a greyish clay-sand matrix. This was overlain by an occupation/abandonment layer containing scattered small, sharp gravel and baked clay and pottery fragments of the same date, resulting from the alteration of the layer below (US 38). This was probably a man-made bank along the course of an ancient river which, still in the prehistoric period, became a marsh. This was in fact demonstrated by the identification towards the west of a blackish brown layer with very occasional baked clay fragments (US 60), patches of which covered US 38, and deepened at first gradually and then suddenly to at least one metre, as shown by core sampling.

    The organisation of US 37 seemed to be connected with the gravel and sand substratum US 43, whose level descended notably in correspondence with the natural riverbed, along a front documented for at least 5 metres, extending from north-west to south-east.
    In the excavated area an ancient robber trench (US – 40) of an undefinable structure (kiln?), in phase with the basal layer, was partially uncovered. The cut contained various dumps, both primary and secondary, of baked clay fragments, ash and charcoal.

    Subsequently, with the area’s progressive abandonment, but still in the prehistoric period, further cuts destroyed and altered the pre-existing layers, only partially sparing the preceding stratigraphic situation.

    Two overlying levels of plough soil were identified: the first certainly Roman (US -48, 49), the second either Roman or later (US -51, 52). From the section it was clear that these cuts tended to deepen from west to east, marking a difference in height probably due to a preceding geomorphological situation. In the eastern part of the section it was seen that cut US 48 formed a wavy line from the top towards the bottom, the spacing more or less regular. The most convincing hypothesis is that this represents plough furrows, which on the basis of the discovery of one in plan cutting the gravel layer, ran north-west/south-east and were orientated to circa 320° North.

    Modern maps seem to show that the area of the Roman structure (found in 2009) is at 4.5 m a.s.l., whilst the area beyond the irrigation ditch lies at between 1.8 and 4.00 m a.s.l. This seems to indicate that already in antiquity occupation was concentrated on the highest part of the area, whilst the lower areas may have been subject to swamping caused by the presence of small water courses, as attested by the peat layer seen in some trenches.

  • Giovanni Filippo Rosset - Società Friulana di Archeologia 

Director

  • Roberto Micheli - Soprintendenza ai Beni Archeologici del Friuli Venezia Giulia
  • Serena Vitri - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Friuli Venezia Giulia

Team

  • Daniele Callari
  • Luca Ferracin - Società Friulana di Archeologia
  • Sveva Russo
  • Maurizio Buora - Museo Archeologico dei Civici Musei di Udine

Research Body

  • Società Friulana di Archeologia

Funding Body

  • Comune di Bagnaria Arsa

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