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Excavation

  • Lavagnone
  • Lavagnone
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  • Italy
  • Lombardy
  • Province of Brescia
  • Desenzano del Garda

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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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Monuments

Periods

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Season

    • The excavation in the peat basin of Lavagnone, begun in 1989, aim towards a precise definition of the chronology and typology of the dwellings, especially of the early Bronze Age

      In the Bronze Age the dwellings emerge as a field packed with stakes: it i

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    • Sector E, July 2008

      Sector E, opened in 2007, covers a total surface area of 126 m2.
      Investigation of the late Middle Bronze Age levels continued.
      US 3013 was removed. This layer contained an amber bead, a fragment from a cup of the so-called Isolon

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    • The 2011 campaign, 11th July-5th August, concentrated on sectors D and E.

      Sector D, close to the marsh at the centre of the basin and to the point where core samples were taken for paleo-environmental analyses, was opened in 2007 in order to check the s

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    • The 2012 campaign undertaken by the Università degli Studi di Milano concentrated on sectors D and E, where the latest occupation phases in the basin were examined. Only limited evidence of the full and final middle Bronze Age horizons emerging in these se... Read More
    • The 2013 campaign continued the University of Milan’s investigation of the later occupation phases in the basin, datable to the middle Bronze Age.

      The excavations concentrated on Sector D (in the territory of Lonato) at the centre of the basin, and Secto

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    • In 2014, the University of Milan’s department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage continued work on the Bronze Age site of Lavagnone at Desenzano del Garda.

      Firstly, work to improve and render the area safe was undertaken aimed towards the protection a

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    • This season the excavations on the Bronze Age palafitte site of Lavagnone ( a UNESCO World Heritage site) took place in two separate sectors. In sector D, a swampy area close to the centre of the basin, the mid Late Bronze Age (BM3) and Early Bronze Age (B... Read More
    • This season, Milan University’s excavations concentrated exclusively on sector D, towards the centre of the ancient basin of the Lavagnone, in an area that is usually still marshy. However, this year, as in the previous one, the environmental conditions we... Read More
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