Season Team

• AIAC_818 - Rocca Conti Guidi - 2006
  Le indagini archeologiche sulla Rocca di Modigliana si riferiscono al progetto dal titolo “Alle origini della Signoria comitaleguidinga. Strutture insediamenti e territorio” che ha come oggetto principale lo studio delle modalità con cui ebbe origine e si realizzò materialmente la signoria guidinga fra IX e XIII secolo. L’obbiettivo della ricerca è quindi quello di ricostruire le dimensioni strutturali dell'incastellamento guidingo; nello specifico l’analisi archeologica delle strutture murarie delle tecnologie edilizie adottate per una loro contestualizzazione cronotipologica in ambito territoriale. Il progetto così concepito si coniuga bene con il programma di restauro della Rocca. Le indagini sulle murature del _palatium_ e della cinta muraria hanno finora permesso di individuare 3 fasi costruttive comprese fra XII e XV secolo e la redazione del relativo atlante cronotipologico murario. Tale atlante ha permesso di identificare nel territorio alcune strutture riferibili all’incastellamento guidingo di XII secolo, individuando caratteristiche materico-costruttive di tecnologie edilizie attribuibili a maestranze itineranti volute dai conti. In base alle analisi delle murature sulla rocca, coniugate alle esigenze di restauro, a partire dal 2005, sono state indagate 2 aree di scavo per la comprensione dell’interrato all’interno della terza cinta muraria: il Saggio A e il Saggio B, rispettivamente nell’angolo nord/ovest e sud/est. In base a queste indagini è stato possibile individuare 3 fasi di vissuto caratterizzate da strati con una forte componente argillosa. La fase più recente si compone di livelli formatisi dopo il completo abbandono del castello, caratterizzati da materiale di riporto di epoche diverse. Per il saggio A la fase intermedia è individuata da uno strato argilloso in cui è stata scavata una fossa con andamento est/ovest che copriva un muro riferibile alla terza fase. Anche per il Saggio B si segnala la presenza di una fase sottostante agli strati superficiali, caratterizzata da una struttura muraria e strati composti di pietre, laterizi e componenti argillose. (Giovanni Vannini, Chiara Molducci)
• AIAC_819 - Pieve di S. Reparata - 2006
  The parish church of Santa Reparata is situated between the towns of Terra del Sole and Castrocaro Terme (FC), on the last Apennine slopes of the Valle del Montone. Although demolition and changes in use have partly modified the church’s layout, the original plan and the characteristics typical of Romanesque art which distinguish it are clearly preserved, so much so that the parish church of Santa Reparata is a monument of notable importance in the panorama of Romagna’s architecture. Furthermore, the building’s mention in written sources of 970 A.D. and the complete lack of correspondence between that date and the existing Romanesque structures suggested that an archaeological excavation may possibly reveal much earlier structures. The scientific investigation principally aimed towards: - determining the overall planimetric development of the church in relation to the earlier construction phases and the present one; - gaining an in-depth knowledge of rural parish churches in the early medieval period, in particular those in Romagna and the Apennine area; - identifying any settlement in the area surrounding the site under examination. The excavation was preceded by a campaign of non-destructive geophysical investigations aimed at defining the extension of the area containing the archaeological deposit, identifying any buried walls, evaluating the extent of the archaeological deposit and planning subsequent research. The excavation revealed the presence of a complex settlement situation, characterised by the prolonged occupation of the site from the Roman period onwards. A small room with an apse, probably belonging to a much larger rustic villa dated to this period, more precisely the late antique period. At the moment of its abandonment it was occupied by a cemetery area characterised by large masonry built tombs. During the early medieval period a church with a single nave was built over the late Roman structure. More or less square in shape it terminated in a semicircular apse with burials both in its interior and to the exterior. The subsequent Romanesque phase, characterised by the construction of the building which is still partly preserved today, was attested by the presence of traces of a vast crypt originally situated below the presbytery of the central nave and probably also extending to the terminal parts of the lateral naves. During the Renaissance, the church underwent a period of great changes, with a drastic reduction in size to only a part of the central nave, which was however decorated with a cycle of frescoes. A raised presbytery was built, highlighted by a staircase and capitals in pietra serena with floral motifs which supported the cross vaulted ceiling. During the 17th century the consecration of the parish church of Santa Reparata inside the Medici cittadel of Santa Reparata probably marked the end of the rural parish church which was gradually demolished and also used for residential and agricultural purposes. Research on the site of the parish church of Santa Reparata will continue with the extension of the excavation to the lateral naves and the area behind, the aim being to identify the complete planimetric development of the rural building that is still partly preserved. Extension of the excavation may also lead to the clarification of the dynamics which led from a Roman rustic villa to the construction of a church