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Excavation

  • Rofalco
  • Farnese
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  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Viterbo
  • Farnese

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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)

  • Excavations continued in areas investigated in previous years.
    In Area 0 an extensive investigation was made of the large area situated south-west of the previously excavated rooms. The aim was to define the internal layout of the rooms in what had begun to appear as a sort of large insula on the same alignment as previously identified structures and the structure in nearby Area 1000. The complete layout of the walls, visible on the surface and built of fragments of local trachyte, was documented. Four rooms were identified with substantial collapses, from the walls and tile roofing, in a good state of preservation despite the action of hill-wash on the slope. In the room situated in the western corner of the complex (room 6) a sort of courtyard was identified. It was paved with gravel and roofed along one side, below which one or more large dolia were preserved. The rooms stood on two levels of terracing which were adapted to the natural slope.

    In Area 1000 excavation of room 1 continued and began on adjacent room 2, housing the cistern. The exploration of the first room confirmed the presence of two construction phases. Below a substantial levelling layer was an occupation layer to be associated with the first phase of the area’s use, directly overlying the bedrock. In the adjacent room the beaten floor surface of the second phase was identified and the circular cistern completely excavated. Outside of the area, north-west of the two rooms, the existence of an open space, paved with a beaten surface of volcanic stones, was ascertained. This may have been a square for public use linked with the settlement’s internal road system.

    Cleaning was undertaken in order to better define the emerging structures in a zone east of Area 0, where a number of alignments had previously been documented. Several walls were identified on the same alignment as those already known and forming part of a building which must have occupied the space (Area 5000) between Areas 0 and 2000.

  • Luca Pulcinelli - Gruppo Archeologico Romano 

Director

  • Gianfranco Gazzetti - Gruppo Archeologico Romano

Team

  • Cecilia Attanasio Ghezzi - Gruppo Archeologico Romano
  • Francesco Rubat Borel - Gruppo Archeologico Subalpino
  • Orlando Cerasuolo - Gruppo Archeologico Romano

Research Body

  • Gruppo Archeologico Romano

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