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Excavation

  • Torre Certalta
  • Torre Certalta
  • Castrum Certalti
  • Italy
  • Umbria
  • Province of Perugia
  • Gubbio

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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)

  • The third campaign revealed new information about the settlement’s topography. Excavation continued in two different areas, Sector A at the centre of the settlement and Sector B on the southern part of the site. Both zones were enlarged.

    In Sector A, excavation continued in the two previously identified rooms. Room A was excavated down to the bedrock without intercepting any floor levels.

    In room E, two different floor levels were exposed. In the northern part of the room there was a structure made up of medium and large horizontally laid blocks of local stone. This structure, which occupied precisely half of the room, was really a single large block of masonry inserted into the room. Only the southern edge of this structure had a worked face. In the southern part of the room, a floor level was identified, made up of horizontally placed terracotta tiles and lay about one metre below the top of the structure.
    Room F was excavated down to its floor level, made up of the bedrock levelled where necessary with large, horizontally placed slabs of local stone. In the south-eastern part of the room, two structures made of large sandstone blocks abutted the threshold, probably steps leading into the room itself. Three burials in stone coffins lay below the floor, abutting the perimeter walls. There were no skeletal remains in the burials, which were probably disturbed in antiquity. At present, it is difficult to suggest the original function of this room. However, several occupation phases were identified.

    Sector B was extended to the west, in the zone between rooms D and F. The excavation revealed more walls, some built of small to large local sandstone blocks, others in bricks, all belonging to structures only partially intercepted to date. Their exact layout and plan remains to be defined. The excavations stopped before the complete removal of diverse layers of collapse.

    The preliminary study of the large amount of pottery recovered again confirmed that the site was occupied during the period attested by the written sources, the full medieval to Renaissance periods. A chronological seriation has been defined which enables the finds to be associated with the various structures identified.

  • Luca Boldrini - Università degli Studi di Perugia 
  • Alessio Pascolini 

Director

  • Donatella Scortecci

Team

  • Debora Castellani - Università degli Studi di Perugia
  • Luana Cenciaioli - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Umbria

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento Uomo e Territorio, Sezione di studi Comparati sulle Società Antiche.

Funding Body

  • Associazione Culturale Umbria Archeologica
  • Comune di Umbertide
  • Lions Club Umbertide

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