Summary (English)
In trench III, excavations continued of the extension to the west of medieval house B. The removal of the layers of collapse from the medieval structures was completed and excavation of the occupation layers and beaten surfaces of building L began, which has been attributed a preliminary dating of the 10th-12th century. This building may not have been a house but a weaver’s workshop, given the numerous loom weights recovered and the presence of a possible structure for a loom and a tank. The tops of possibly Roman-late antique walls emerged from the underlying layer.
In trench V, where the excavation of three rooms belonging to a row of medieval houses abutting the town’s Byzantine fortifications has been going on for some years, the investigation of the northern and central rooms and the trench’s external western extension continued.
A layer containing a number of burials emerged below the medieval constructions and a series of early medieval timber structures. The removal of the burials revealed a polychrome mosaic with geometric motifs, belonging to a building that completely occupied excavation’s western extension and, probably part of the area of the medieval structures, which will be investigated during the coming campaigns.
- Gabriella Ciampi - Direttore del Dipartimento di Scienze dei Beni Culturali, Università degli Studi della Tuscia 
Director
Team
- Annamaria Villari
- Flora Scaia
- Giuseppe Romagnoli
- Tamara Patilli
- Teresa Leone
- Valeria D’Atri - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell’Etruria Meridionale
- Carlo Pavolini - Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Scienze dei Beni Culturali
- Elisabetta De Minicis - Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Scienze dei Beni Culturali
Research Body
- Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Dipartimento di Scienze dei Beni Culturali
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