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Series Number
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572
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Title
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Tra Reti e Romani:
il sito d’altura del Doss Penede in area altogardesana (Nago-Torbole, TN)
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Date of Publication
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2023
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Abstract
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The Doss Penede is a limestone hill facing the northern shore of Lake Garda and overlooking the lower valley of the Sarca river and the terrace of Nago, a natural connection, through the Loppio valley, with the middle valley of the Adige river. Exca-vation at the Doss Penede began in 2019 through a fruitful collaboration between the Township of Nago-Torbole, the Archaeo-logical Heritage Office of the Superintendency of the Autonomous Province of Trento and the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento.
Archaeological work highlighted a long-lasting intermittent settlement sequence characterised by three main phases of occu-pation: the Recent Bronze Age, the Second Iron Age and the Roman period (from the later 1st century BC to the early 4th cen-tury AD). On the basis of the data collected in the first four years of excavation, this paper aims to provide an overall picture of the topographical and architectural changes occurred at the site in the two best documented macro-periods – the Second Iron Age and the early and middle Roman Imperial Age – situating them in the broader pre-Alpine and central-eastern Alpine framework. A further aspect that will be investigated concerns the settlement continuity/discontinuity between the latest oc-cupation phase of the Second Iron Age and the reconfiguration and monumentalization process related to the Romanization of the High Garda in the late 1st century BC, when this area was aggregated to the urban center of Brixia/Brescia.
