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Excavation

  • Palazzo della Regina
  • I Giardini
  • Betifulum
  • Italy
  • Abruzzo
  • Province of L'Aquila
  • Scanno

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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)

  • Trench 1, locality of Giardino a Caldo
    The continuation of excavation below the later levels of abandonment and partial reoccupation of the site (phases 3 and 4) provided a better definition of the stratigraphic sequence relating to the first two occupation phases:

    1a. The area was cleared and a house built on the natural terrain of which the south east corner was preserved, formed by two connecting dry-stone walls. A first floor surface made of terracotta slabs, excavated this season, was in phase with these walls. The make-up for the floor lay directly on natural.

    1b. The floor and its make-up were cut and a new floor surface laid, corresponding with the terracotta slabs identified last season. Further west a beaten earth surface was created, perhaps an indication of an area with a different function.

    2. In this phase, two structures were built on the destruction levels of the earlier house. The first, to the west, was attested by a wall of stones bonded with mortar and the reuse of the earlier beaten earth floor surface. The second, to the east, was delimited by a similar wall and at least partially paved, attested by a patch of mortar make-up and ceramic fragments. The space between the two structures was occupied by the roof collapse from the earlier structure. The pottery finds dates phases 1 – 3 top between the 4th and 6th centuries A.D.

    Località Lame Soriano
    Cleaning was undertaken along the south slope of the Colle di Caccialepre, which made it possible to document the digging undertaken in 1990 to channel local spring water. Pottery fragments and skeletal remains – an adult male and two young individuals, no more than 16 years of age – spread in several points on the floor surface at the base of the modern cut and with clear signs of recent fractures, attested a disturbed burial site. A burial in an earth grave, situated immediately to the west and partially cut by the modern digging was also identified.

    The preliminary analyses on the teeth and skeletal remains confirmed that the two sub-adults were aged between 14 and 16 years, and one was probably a female.
    No pathological alterations were present in the cortical and subcortical skeletal tissue such as indicators of stress, episodes of malnutrition or trauma suffered intra vitam. The teeth presented peridontal pathology and medium ware of the enamel. The unauthorised digging had cut the grave, removing its southern edge. Only a few pottery fragments and part of what was probably a silver earring were recovered from the burial.

  • Francesca Romana Del Fattore - Matrix 96 Società Cooperativa 
  • Melania Gigante – Sezione di Bioarcheologia Museo Preistorico ed Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini" 
  • Alessandro Felici - Matrix 96 Società Cooperativa 

Director

  • Andrea Schiappelli – Matrix 96 Società Cooperativa

Team

  • Anna Rizzo – Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà – Università degli Studi di Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”
  • Chiara D’Innocenzo – Sezione di Bioarcheologia Museo Preistorico ed Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini"
  • Eliana Boi – Sezione di Bioarcheologia Museo Preistorico ed Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini"
  • Melania Gigante – Sezione di Bioarcheologia Museo Preistorico ed Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini"
  • Emma Cimatti – Centro di Ricerche di Bioarcheologia – ArcheoLaBio, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Università degli Studi di Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”
  • Barbara Ottani - Università di Bologna
  • : Chiara Tebaldi – Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà – Università degli Studi di Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”
  • Gianfranco de Rossi
  • Francesca Romana Del Fattore – Matrix 96 Società Cooperativa
  • Alessandro Felici – Matrix 96 Società Cooperativa

Research Body

  • Centro di Ricerche di Bioarcheologia – ArcheoLaBio, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà, Università degli Studi di Bologna “Alma Mater Studiorum”
  • Sezione di Bioarcheologia Museo Preistorico ed Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini"

Funding Body

  • Comune di Scanno
  • Matrix 96 Società Cooperativa
  • Rotary Club Roma Ovest

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