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Excavation

  • Ca’ Bufalini
  • Ca’ Bufalini
  • Ad Novas
  • Italy
  • Emilia-Romagna
  • Province of Forlì-Cesena
  • Cesenatico

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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)

  • Three small trenches were open in September 2010: one in the north part of the field (T21), a second on the west corner of the property (T22) and a third in the eastern limit, facing the nearby canal (T20).
    In T20, the remains of a thermal bath have been unearthed, small square pillars (suspensurae) were still in the original position in spite of significant late antique rebuilding. A central robbed wall separated the hypocaust from a semicircular pool, the remains of which were recorded in a sample pit in the south west of the trench. The size of the bath, and its associated finds, suggest it was part of a villa dated to the first century A.D. Later, around the late fourth or early fifth century, the thermal bath was robbed for building material. Among the few finds collected from T20 were fragments of red painted frescoes, marble slabs and a limited amount of roman pottery.

    The aim of opening T21 was to investigate potential structures along the cobbled road excavated in 2008 and 2009. Here, different phases of road repair were documented. A floor makeup found next to the road, hints at the existence of a building, but more data is needed to understand this area.
    Notably, a collection of mainly early imperial Roman pottery was recovered from T21, while post- fifth century ceramics were rare, contrasting with the assemblage from nearby T10 (2009).

    T22 was open in a supposed marginal area of the site. Two robbed walls were found, indicating the existence of another building. A thick layer of fragmented bricks and tiles spread all around the opened trench, suggest drainage of the area using material taken from an earlier Roman building. The rarity of ceramic finds suggests that this was not a residential part of the site.

    Whilst still in a preliminary phase of study, the amount of coins, potteries and glass associated with the cobbled road, seem to demonstrate that after the Roman villa, the site became a late antique market place, in a period probably spanning the late fourth to the early seventh centuries.

    Nel corso della campagna di scavo 2010 sono state aperte tre trincee: una nella parte settentrionale del terreno (T21), una seconda nell’angolo sud-occidentale (T22) e una terza sul limite est della proprietà.

  • Denis Sami - School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester 
  • Neil Christie - School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester 

Director

Team

  • Alexandra Livarda - University of Sheffield
  • Anita Radini - University of York
  • Andrew Tullet - University of Leicester
  • Fabio Visani - Università degli Studi di Bologna
  • Jon Coward - ULAS, Leicester
  • Mireja Gonzales Rodriguez - University of Leicester
  • Steve Baker - ULSA, Leicester

Research Body

  • University of Leicester – Department of Archaeology & Ancient History (UK)

Funding Body

  • Comune di Cesenatico

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