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Excavation

  • San Giovanni (Tornareccio)
  • Val di Sangro
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  • Italy
  • Abruzzo
  • Province of Chieti
  • Tornareccio

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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)

  • Trenches SG T10000 and SG T11000, first explored in 2014, were re-opened for further investigation in 2015. Excavations revealed further evidence for the Middle Bronze Age and Roman features first identified in 2014.

    Two Middle Bronze Age structures were revealed by the end of the 2015 season. Structure 1, located within SG T11000, is composed of an oval platform with internal post-holes cut into a preserved compacted clay floor. A large drip gulley curves along the northern edge of the platform. Structure 2, located within SG T10000, was also composed of an oval platform with post-holes cut into its preserved floor surface with a similar large drip gulley along its northern edge. Both structures were in-filled with abundant cultural material deposited from nearby midden areas. Material evidence was present for household industries such as spinning, weaving, bone working and flint knapping. A fragmentary amber bead found in SG T11000 is evidence that these structures were inhabited by a community that communicated with the outside world.
    The San Giovanni site shows evidence for activity in the Iron Age period although not for habitation. A large colluvium deposit and a drove-way in SG T10000 that led up the hill from the south-east (both features contained some Iron Age impasto) suggest an agricultural use of the land during this period.

    In the Roman period, the area was used for activities associated with a Roman villa located in a field to the north-east and the Roman Imperial – Late Antique domestic habitation area partly excavated in 2014 in the nearby SG T9000. In 2015, the large wall in SG T10000 was determined to be the retaining or boundary wall for a work yard with a compacted limestone surface and a large pit sump for water drainage. More work is planned for this site in 2016.

  • Susan Kane - Oberlin College 

Director

Team

  • Hazel Mosley- Canterbury Archaeological Trust
  • William Raynolds- New York University
  • Alexis Christensen - University of Utah
  • Melissa Fore- Oberlin College
  • Luke Aspland, Lund University
  • Anna Pia Apilongo
  • Coralie Clover- University of Durham
  • Giuseppe Masilli
  • Ross Lane- Canterbury Archaeological Trust

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