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Excavation

  • Forcello
  • Forcello
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  • Italy
  • Lombardy
  • Province of Mantua
  • Borgo Virgilio

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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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    • Forcello di Bagnolo San Vito (MN) is the most important Etrusco-Paduan settlement of the 6th-4th century B.C. discovered in Lombardy to date. Situated a few kilometres south-west of Mantua, on a low elongated rise, between the ancient terrace on the right ... Read More
    • Two campaigns were undertaken in 2010 – April-July and in September. The main objective of the first campaign was the identification of the north-western side perimeter of house FI of phase F in order to define the full extension of the dwelling. In fact, ... Read More
    • The excavations undertaken in May-June and September in sectors Q-R 18-19 aimed to uncover more of house FII from phase F, situated immediately south-west of house FI. In fact, the northern edge of the latter was identified during the 2010 campaign, while ... Read More
    • The excavations took place between the 3rd and 28th September 2012. The main objective was to continue the investigation of the so-called house “of the Craters” in sector R-S 17-18, the south-westernmost part which had been exposed during the 2011 excavati... Read More
    • Excavations took place in sectors R-S 18-19 and R-S 17-18. The intervention in sectors R-S 18-19 involved an area that had not been investigated for over 10 years, the strip of terrain c. 20 × 5 m between the area occupied by the phase C house (_House of t... Read More
    • Most of the work in 2014 was a continuation of the exploration of a residential structure dating to the 5th century B.C., identified in the south-eastern part of the excavation area opened at the centre of the settlement, and situated south-west of the la... Read More
    • This season research continued in the south-eastern area of the excavation, at the intersection between sectors R – S / 17- 18. Here, excavation is taking place of a dwelling belonging to phase C of the Forcello settlement sequence dating to the mid 5th ce... Read More
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  • 390 BC