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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)

  • In Area 0 exploration continued of previously identified structures which had suggested the preservation of features of considerable interest. The north-east and south-east perimeter walls of the large room 8 were better defined. A very substantial collapse of stones, only partially caused by hill-wash, was uncovered and seemed to seal underlying destruction and occupation layers. In the lower room 7 a trench uncovered the floor of compact lava-stone, on which a large dolium rested in situ. A sort of low step or bench built of stones bonded with clay was documented in correspondence with the door leading from the room into an open-air courtyard discovered the previous year (room 6). Inside room 5, situated on the upper terrace of the structure, the partial removal of a substantial collapses of stones, also visible on the surface, revealed the existence of another elongated structure, perhaps interpretable as a portico or roof. Open to the exterior along the north-western side of the insula it faced onto what was probably the settlement’s central road.

    In Area 1000 the excavation of rooms 1 and 2 was completed.
    In the first a series of deposits was removed which formed the terracing on which the room itself was built. The lower layers are probably to be interpreted as dumps of material from the dismantling of earlier structures. The excavation reached an apparently sterile, reddish layer considered to be natural, seen to be in direct contact with the volcanic bedrock. In room 2, where the masonry and opus signinum cistern was situated, a pit covered by stone slabs was discovered, filled with a thick layer of organic sediment that was rich in animal bones. This was probably a midden or dung-pit. At the end of the excavation a sterile reddish layer was visible everywhere, similar to that brought to light in room 1. However, in this second room it was at a much higher level with respect to the latter.

    These two rooms may be interpreted as a covered room (room 2) used for storage, with in diverse periods a cistern and dung-pit, and an open-air enclosure (room 1) perhaps used for animals. Both spaces clearly served the nearby residential block in Area 0.

    Brief excavations were undertaken in the paved courtyard (room 1) of Area 2000, aimed at clarifying the stratigraphic sequence and details of the opus africanum construction technique, and in the area of the settlement’s eastern gate (Area 4000) and nearby bastion of the walls, in order to complete the general plan.

  • 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

Funding Body

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