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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)

  • This year attention was focused in the exploration of trench 20 (T20) in order to collect more data regarding the small apsed monument uncovered in 2010.

    The trench was enlarged in the northern and western sides for about circa five metres. It had been found that next to the apsed monument was a large ditch most probably a canal connected with the nearby inland waterway Fossatone. Post-holes cut on the edge of this ditch, as well as remains of foundation of structures have been interpreted as evidence of a small dock. The presence of a small thermal bath has been confirmed, but data evidence suggests that probably at the end of the fourth or in the fifth century the site was pulled down and raised. On top of this level there were set up structures, floors and post-holes which have been in fact documented and are probably remains of huts. All the deposits explored date to a post-fourth century AD phase, and the hut may be of fifth to seventh century, but more information is needed to confirm.

    A survey undertaken in the canal also documented fragments of pottery, tails and bricks of Roman imperial date, both on the bottom and on the bank of the canal suggesting this water-way was cut in a phase contemporary to the construction of the road explored in 2010-11.

    A geophysical survey was undertaken on the surface of the entire field. Results show the presence of a big building on the northern part of the field and next to the road. Circa thirty coins spanning the Early-imperial period to the late fifth century have been collected, also some coins from the 1930s-40s have been found.

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

Director

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

Team

  • Anna Walas - University of Leicester
  • Luana Toniolo - Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia
  • Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez - University of Leicester
  • Saúl Martín González - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Research Body

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

Funding Body

  • Comune di Cesenatico

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