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Excavation

  • San Vito dei Normanni
  • Castello di Alceste
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  • Italy
  • Apulia
  • Province of Brindisi
  • San Vito dei Normanni

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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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Summary (English)

  • This campaign concentrated on the study of the grande edificio, the extensive archaic complex situated on the hill summit. The stratigraphy inside one of the rooms in the residential part (room 5), characterised by substantial perimeter walls, showed the negative traces of a series of elements of furnishing. Evidence for the use of fire was attested by patches altered by heat that were particularly clear in the centre of the room. Of great importance for the interpretation of the function of this structure was the find of a votive deposit with faunal remains and fragments of Ionic cups. The analysis of the main walls showed that room 5 was the earliest structure in the archaic grande edificio. The excavation results support the evidence suggesting that ritual activities took place in this room.

    An important result was the identification of the lower curtain wall, to date known only from aerial photographs which indicated the position of its line below the dry-stone walls of the farm. An explorative investigation along the north-western line verified the existence of the wall and dated it to the archaic phase.

    A further intervention involved the Iron Age hut. The excavation defined its plan and the construction technique of the perimeter walls (timber posts inserted into a stone structure). Inside the hut a hearth was partially examined by a micro-excavation undertaken in collaboration with the Paleo-botany laboratory of the University of Salento aimed at studying the traces of heat alteration and the hearth’s function.

  • Grazia Semeraro - Università degli Studi del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali 

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Team

  • Alessandro Monastero - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Barbara Pecere - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Carmela Iaia - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Chiara Marchetti - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Donatella D’Aluisio - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Florinda Notarstefano - Scuola di Specializzazione in Archeologia Classica e Medievale dell’Università del Salento
  • Giuliana Genoese - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Manuela Russo - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Assunta Cocchiaro - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Puglia
  • Angelo Moro - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Cosimo Semeraro - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Daniela Urso - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Marco Conte - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Roberta Corona - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Serena Siena - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Silvia Longo - Università degli Studi del Salento
  • Valeria Fatone - Università degli Studi del Salento

Research Body

  • Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali

Funding Body

  • ACRI (Associazione Casse di Risparmio Italiane) – Progetto Sviluppo Sud: sostenuto da Fondazione CARIPLO
  • Comune di San Vito dei Normanni

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