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    Chronology

    • 3900 BC - 700 BC
    • 1 AD - 400 AD
    • 1200 AD - 1300 AD

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      • The occupation of this area from the Roman Imperial period to the present day, even though discontinuous, is documented by the finds from a surface layer of agricultural soil. These comprise 18 Tyrolean coins, a 13th century coin minted at Trento, 17 coins from between the 1st- 4th centuries A.D., as well as pottery and various military artefacts of Roman date. The layers untouched by the plough show Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age remains. If, during the Iron Age this area was used for agricultural purposes (stone make-ups for land reclamation and land division), the structural remains from the Neolithic period indicate the presence of dwellings (pits containing charcoal rich soil, pottery, flints, millstones). However, the best preserved structures (post-holes and various types of pit) and the majority of the finds date to the late Bronze Age (Luco A culture). Long narrow trenches containing post-holes from wooden buildings, which were not burnt down, have been recorded. Terracotta reels and loom weights indicate the domestic nature of the activities carried out here and contribute to the identification of the excavated structures as part of a settlement. The area excavated in 2002 seems to relate to the area outside the settlement, where activities such as clay extraction for the production of pottery and baked clay, the use of fire for cooking and the firing of pottery took place (pits with severely oxidized walls and fills of baked clay deriving from kiln walls and other structures that had gone out of use). Amongst the finds were lumps of bronze scrap from fusion in moulds and thin fragments of slag. Many pottery forms of the late Bronze Age were found, including some exotic types with stamped decoration filled with white paste.

    Bibliography

      • AA.VV., 2004, Denkmalpflege in Südtirol 2003. Tutela dei beni culturali in Sudtirolo, a cura della soprintendenza provinciale ai beni culturali di Bolzano, Bolzano.