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  • Bosco Marengo – Via Aemilia Scauri
  • San Quirico
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  • Italy
  • Piedmont
  • Province of Alessandria
  • Bosco Marengo

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Monuments

Periods

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Chronology

  • 109 BC - 500 AD
  • 1000 AD - 1800 AD

Season

    • The trench dug in the _via Emilia_ brought to light the beaten-earth surface of the ancient _via Aemilia Scauri_, which corresponds in width and direction (north-east/south-west) with the present road. The ancient stretch of road was about 5.30 m wide and presented a “donkey back” profile. Numerous cart tracks were visible in the surface. The road had been re-laid (using dumps of sand and gravel taken from the alluvial deposits in the basin of the Scrivia torrent) in a period which cannot be fixed due to a lack of datable archaeological material.

Bibliography

    • M. Venturino Gambari, A. Crosetto, V. E. Pistarino, 2010, Bosco Marengo – Predosa – Sezzadio – Castelnuovo Bormida – Strevi – Acqui Terme. Rinvenimento di tratti del sedime stradale della via Aemilia Scauri, in Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte, 25: 142-153, in particolare pp. 143-144.