Summary (English)
In 2010 the investigation of the Roman site identified during a survey and partially excavated in 2006 was completed (site N: surface scatter circa 1400 m2). Few structural remains emerged in the area (two post holes and an irregular-shaped packing of bricks and earth) and two large sub-circular middens. The latter contained fragments of brick/tile, coarse ware pottery and above all amphorae which date the dumps to within the 1st century B.C. (globular Adriatic, late Lamboglia 2).
In 2010 the area occupied by the pre-Roman timber structure for crossing the ancient bed of the Canna was reopened, as was a sector of the outer route of the via Annia that was investigated in 2003. Two trenches were opened, one crossing the riverbed immediately above the timber structure and one across the Roman road and the ditch on its eastern side. All of the surviving elements of the timber structure were identified and it was seen that they had been put into place when the water course was already almost completely filled in. It was also noted that an area of the substrata on the north bank of the ancient bed of the Canna had been cleared prior to the laying down of the Roman road. The geometry of the ditch flanking the road was reconstructed and the levels of fill, characterised by lagoon dwelling malaco-fauna, were excavated.
All of the elements from the timber structure were sampled for future radiometric and dendrochronology analyses. Samples were taken from the N-S section opened across the ancient riverbed for thin-section analysis in order to gain data regarding the filling in of the riverbed and for palynological analyses useful for a diachronic reconstruction of the landscape.
- Maria Stella Busana - Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento Scienze dell’Antichità 
Director
Team
- Mauro Bon - Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia
- Silvia Garavello - Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia
- Mara Migliavacca - Università degli Studi di Padova
- Serenella Nardi - Università degli Studi di Padova
- Andrea R. Ghiotto - Università degli Studi di Padova
- Cecilia Rossi - Università degli Studi di Padova
- Stefania Mazzocchin - Università degli Studi di Padova
- Cristiano Nicosia - Università degli Studi di Milano
- Aldino Bondesan - Università degli Studi di Padova
- Paolo Mozzi - Università degli Studi di Padova
- Paolo Kirschner - Università degli Studi di Padova
- Sofia Pescarin - ITABC del CNR di Roma
- Antonella Miola - Università degli Studi di Padova, dipartimento di Biologia
- Maria Cristina Villani - Università degli Studi di Padova
Research Body
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – ITABC
- Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia
- Università degli Studi di Padova
Funding Body
- Fondazione Cassamarca
- Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti (ARCUS)
- Regione Veneto
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