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Excavation

  • Monte Vairano
  • Monte Vairano
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  • Italy
  • Molise
  • Province of Campobasso
  • Busso

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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 excavations identified nine contexts distributed throughout the various rooms of building “C”; US1 (caused by downwash, covering a broad chronological span) appears to be uniformly distributed throughout the whole of building “C”, interpreted as an italic type domus. The average thickness of the deposit is no more than one metre and is characterized by compact brown earth. US 2 was identified throughout the entire quadrant, the deposit is however uneven both as regards its thickness and the typology and quantity of material (limited mainly to fragments of tile in the upper levels of the quadrant mixed with clayey brown earth, and with large unworked blocks of stone in the lower part). The interface of US2 was identified throughout almost the entire excavated area.

    Today it is possible to identify the outer perimeter of the entire building which, in the light of the new information, is much larger than previously thought; circa 500 sq.m. If one excludes the SE corner, where excavations still not have been carried out, the structure is approximately square in plan (22 × 19,5m). The southern side, where a room is missing, measures 16,5m, whereas that immediately to the north measures 19,5m, and the western side measures 22m. The absence of a room in the corner is perhaps due to the need to adapt the structure to the changes in the natural ground level. The USM are distributed according to room, each of which is given a progressive alphabetical letter. It is worth noting that, with the exception of some slight differences which need to be checked, the measurements result in a surface area of 70 × 80 oscan feet (shortest side: 60 oscan feet (16,50m.)).

    The majority of the material recovered consists of domestic pottery and vernice nera, as well as some minute fragments of sigillata. Although the detailed study of the material has still to be completed, this seems to indicate that at least some of the rooms were also in use in the imperial period. Both the sigillata and the domestic wares indicate a frequentation into the 3rd century AD or a little after.

  • Gianfranco De Benedittis - Università degli Studi del Molise, Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali – Corso di Laurea in Scienze dei Beni Culturali 

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Team

  • Paolo Mauriello - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche di Montelibretti

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi del Molise

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