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Excavation

  • Abbazia di S. Maria
  • Maguzzano
  • Magontianus (X secolo)
  • Italy
  • Lombardy
  • Province of Brescia
  • Lonato del Garda

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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)

  • Two trenches were excavated during the laying of water pipes in the cloister of the abbey at Maguzzano.

    Period I: Roman
    The abbey’s site, in close proximity to the ancient Roman road which led from Verona to Brescia (the present Maccarona road), and several finds had already suggested the presence of a Roman settlement. In fact, coins of Agrippa (1st century B.C.) and one of the emperor Constantine were found. A layer formed by the demolition of a building is also datable to the Roman phase.

    Period IIa: early medieval
    This was represented a beaten clay floor cut by a post hole overlain by a layer of burning.

    Period IIb: early medieval
    The walls relating to the earliest architectural structures were built in medium sized rough-hewn stone blocks bonded with clay. A hearth lit directly on the floor and a probable burial are of the same phase.

    Period IIIa (trench 2): 8th-9th century and Romanesque
    This period is represented by two walls from the same building, perhaps a tower, constructed with medium sized stones bonded with strong white mortar and a sacco foundation trench, faced with large stones and with an emplekton comprising crushed material.

    Period IIIb (trench 1)
    This trench revealed a wall on an E-W alignment built of cobbles, worked to produce a regular shape, bonded with strong mortar. The related floor may be a layer of greyish brown loam mixed with fragments of brick, charcoal and mortar. To the north there was another wall linked to a layer of clayey loam, and what remained of a floor surface.

    Period IIIc (trench 1)
    This revealed a wall on a N-S alignment which abutted another wall built of irregular sized cobbles bonded by crumbly white mortar.

    Period IIId (12th-13th century) (trenches 1 and 2)
    A wall was uncovered on a N-S alignment with facing in cobbles, roughly shaped with a small pick, arranged in regular horizontal courses (12th-13th century), bonded with rather crumbly mortar.

    Period IV (trenches 1 and 2)
    Following the demolition of the structures from the earlier phases a series of dumps were used to create a flat site for building. Also present were several phases relating to a garden. (Gian Pietro Brogiolo, Alexandra Chavarrìa Arnau, Silvia Nuvolari)

Director

  • Gian Pietro Brogiolo - Università degli Studi di Padova

Team

  • Alexandra Chavarría Arnau - Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Silvia Nuvolari - Università degli Studi di Padova
  • Studenti e laureati - Insegnamento di archeologia medievale (Università di Padova)

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Lombardia
  • Università degli Studi di Padova

Funding Body

  • Vittorio Messori

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