Summary (English)
Research continued in the strip immediately north of the villa’s central nucleus in order to investigate three separate buildings identified during previous campaigns.
The southern sector of the NW building (24.40 × 9.90 m) was completely uncovered, exploring the south-eastern corner that had remained unexcavated. The plan as already known was confirmed: on the south front, the complex presented a rectangular open courtyard with a portico, attested by four bases for vertical supports. This season, it was discovered that the building continued to the north, underneath the modern track.Several construction interventions aimed at transforming the internal layout in the final phases of the complex were identified in the northern sector.
The late antique occupation was confirmed; it took place following a phase of extensive destruction caused by fire.The excavation of the NE building was substantially extended and over 15 m of the southern facade was exposed. The western edge of the complex was also identified for a length of almost 10 m. At least six rooms were uncovered, some the result of larger rooms being divided.
This building also continued towards the north below the modern track.
Immediately outside the building’s south-western corner the north-eastern corner of another building was identified, on a completely different alignment.A small trench was opened in the central sector between the two complexes in order to verify the continuation of the structures and opus signinum floors identified in the past inside a modern irrigation channel that crosses the communal land from north to south. The trench, positioned immediately east of the already known walls, confirmed the presence of another building north of the central structure of the complex.
- Diego Elia 
Director
- Diego Elia - Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Studi Storici
- Valeria Meirano-Università degli Studi di Torino
Team
- Marco Serino, Alberto Carlevaris, Giovanni Ferrarelli, Antony Frascà, Luisa Maierà, Vanessa Servidio
- Antonio Barrocu
- Nicolò Masturzo
Research Body
- Università degli Studi di Torino - Dipartimento di Studi Storici
Funding Body
- Associazione culturale Kairós
- Centro studi archeologici
- Supporto logistico del Comune di Costigliole Saluzzo
- Università degli Studi di Torino
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