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Excavation

  • Duna Feniglia
  • La Roccaccia
  • Portus Feniliae
  • Italy
  • Lazio
  • Province of Viterbo
  • Farnese

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Credits

  • 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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Periods

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Season

    • The excavations at Duna Feniglia – loc. Ansedonia (Orbetello – GR) are part of the “Paesaggi d’acque” project which, through survey and excavation, aims to study the prehistoric and proto-historic occupation of the coastal wetlands around Orbetello and th... Read More
    • In 2010 the excavation was extended towards the road crossing the tombolo, with the aim of completely uncovering the earliest structure identified in the previous campaigns. The results are still provisional and only the continuation of this research will ... Read More
    • This campaign concentrated on the circular structure identified in 2008. Eight stratigraphic units were excavated, filling what can now be defined as a sort of large tank, rather than a hut. The structure was cut into the sandy deposit using specific const... Read More
    • During this season, the excavation was extended to the north towards the road crossing the Feniglia tombolo (strip of sand), with the aim of gaining an understanding of the layout of the area close to the large circular tank. The extension of the northern... Read More
    • The excavation was extended to the north as far as the road. In the westernmost area, the fill in the basins/vats was excavated. This contained large amounts of pottery fragments that had probably been used to line the structures. Further north, the presen... Read More
    • This was the thirteenth year of the “Paesaggi d’acque” Project, of which the excavations at Duna Feniglia are a part. In 2014, excavation continued in the area opened during the previous season and, given the high density of structural elements identified,... Read More
    • This was the project’s 16th season. The survey of Monte Argentario and lagoon area of Orbetello concluded in 2006 and this year work continued on the excavation of the settlement in the locality of Duna Feniglia.

      Areas excavated last season were extend

      ... Read More
    • The 2016 excavations (fig. 1) continued in the areas extended last season, removing the baulks left in place because of the presence of trees, which have now been felled by the Forestry Corps, and exploring all the space left between the excavation area an... Read More
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  • 800 BC