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Excavation

  • Cimitero
  • Costigliole Saluzzo
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  • Italy
  • Piedmont
  • Province of Cuneo
  • Costigliole Saluzzo

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Credits

  • 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)

  • Excavations took place in the central body and north-eastern corner of the complex.
    In particular, the excavations were extended and deepened in the rooms arranged around a small internal courtyard, which in the latest phase became “L” shaped (rooms r, v). The sector presented a complex succession of construction phases, that altered the plan and size of the rooms (to the north: s, t, u; to the south: p, q).

    Trenches were dug to check for the existence of a system for water collection and distribution: the well that emerged in the south-west corner of courtyard ‘r’ during the 2012 campaign was seen to be connected to a buried pipe which was followed for over 10 m. Dating evidence confirmed that this area of the villa was also abandoned in the final decades of the 3rd century A.D.

    Immediately to the east the presence of a vast room (Q) was confirmed, of which the west and north sides characterised by the presence of massive roof collapses were investigated.

    There were clear traces in this zone of the 4th-5th century A.D. occupation that followed the collapse of the villa. Building activity was documented, characterised by the use of un-worked large cobbles, and a small tomb made from two overlapping imbrices was uncovered.

    In the north-eastern sector, a new courtyard (N3) inside the villa came to light, probably originally relating to an open area situated immediately to the north (N1). Two successive beaten floor surfaces were excavated, the earliest of which was made of gravel.

  • Diego Elia - Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Studi Storici 

Director

Team

  • Barbara Carè
  • Carla Scilabra
  • Marco Serino
  • Valeria Meirano - Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di Studi Storici

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Torino – Dipartimento di Studi Storici

Funding Body

  • Associazione culturale Kairós. Centro studi archeologici
  • Comune di Costigliole Saluzzo

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