logo
  • Piazza Castello
  • Miglionico
  •  
  • Italy
  • Basilicate
  • Province of Matera
  • Miglionico

Credits

  • failed to get markup 'credits_'
  • AIAC_logo logo

Monuments

Periods

  • No period data has been added yet

Chronology

  • 1100 AD - 1400 AD
  • 750 BC - 650 BC
  • 550 BC - 350 BC

Season

    • The watching brief on the reorganisation of the piazza in front of the castle of “Malconsiglio”, identified two occupation phases of Greek and early medieval date, confirming and adding to the results of the interventions in 2006-2007. The earliest phase on the site was documented by the remains of an archaic dwelling and a necropolis, the tombs, including three earth graves and an enchytrismos, attesting its long use. A rock-cut ditch on an east-west alignment, running along the front of the building, and a forepart with a tower date to various construction phases. This structure was characterised by its very solid masonry, built of cobbles and large stones bonded with abundant cement mortar and had a quadrangular tower at its eastern end. Very interestingly, these structures can be seen as ruins in a number of photographs dating to the beginning of last century. The construction site relating to the castle was identified in the area north of the piazza, characterised by numerous holes filled at the moment it went out of use with large quantities of pottery fragments and food remains. Numerous coins, a seal ring, and some imported pottery were among the material found in the layers obliterating the ditch and holes on the construction site.

Bibliography

    • E. Lapadula, c.s., Miglionico (MT). Recenti scavi in piazza Castello, in Atti del VI Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale (L’Aquila, 12-15 settembre 2012), Firenze.
    • M. Osanna, 2008, L’attività archeologica in Basilicata nel 2007, in Atene e la Magna Grecia dall’età arcaica all’Ellenismo, XLVII Convegno Internazionale di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 27-30 2007), Napoli: 911-944.
    • A. De Siena, 2007, L’attività archeologica in Basilicata nel 2006, in Passato e futuro nei convegni di Taranto, XLVI Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 29 settembre – 1 ottobre 2006), Napoli: 407-463, tavv. I-XXIV.