Season Team

• AIAC_256 - Abbazia di S. Maria - 2006
  Two trenches were excavated during the laying of water pipes in the cloister of the abbey at Maguzzano. _Period I: Roman_ The abbey’s site, in close proximity to the ancient Roman road which led from Verona to Brescia (the present Maccarona road), and several finds had already suggested the presence of a Roman settlement. In fact, coins of Agrippa (1st century B.C.) and one of the emperor Constantine were found. A layer formed by the demolition of a building is also datable to the Roman phase. _Period IIa: early medieval_ This was represented a beaten clay floor cut by a post hole overlain by a layer of burning. _Period IIb: early medieval_ The walls relating to the earliest architectural structures were built in medium sized rough-hewn stone blocks bonded with clay. A hearth lit directly on the floor and a probable burial are of the same phase. _Period IIIa (trench 2): 8th-9th century and Romanesque_ This period is represented by two walls from the same building, perhaps a tower, constructed with medium sized stones bonded with strong white mortar and a sacco foundation trench, faced with large stones and with an emplekton comprising crushed material. _Period IIIb (trench 1)_ This trench revealed a wall on an E-W alignment built of cobbles, worked to produce a regular shape, bonded with strong mortar. The related floor may be a layer of greyish brown loam mixed with fragments of brick, charcoal and mortar. To the north there was another wall linked to a layer of clayey loam, and what remained of a floor surface. _Period IIIc (trench 1)_ This revealed a wall on a N-S alignment which abutted another wall built of irregular sized cobbles bonded by crumbly white mortar. _Period IIId (12th-13th century) (trenches 1 and 2)_ A wall was uncovered on a N-S alignment with facing in cobbles, roughly shaped with a small pick, arranged in regular horizontal courses (12th-13th century), bonded with rather crumbly mortar. _Period IV (trenches 1 and 2)_ Following the demolition of the structures from the earlier phases a series of dumps were used to create a flat site for building. Also present were several phases relating to a garden. (Gian Pietro Brogiolo, Alexandra Chavarrìa Arnau, Silvia Nuvolari)
• AIAC_889 - Via Neroniana, ex fondo Piacentini - 2007
  La campagna 2007 presso l’edificio romano emerso in via Neroniana ha permesso di chiarire le peculiari caratteristiche delle fondazioni, realizzate in elevato al di sopra di imponenti riporti di materiale impermeabile, e di delineare meglio la planimetria. Si è confermata la cronologia di impianto agli inizi del I sec. d.C., anche per il rinvenimento di un deposito di anfore e altri fittili interpretato preliminarmente come fossa di fondazione. Si sono inoltre effettuati sondaggi profondi, che hanno rivelato una sporadica frequentazione dell’area risalente all’età del Bronzo medio-recente. In corrispondenza di alcuni ambienti residenziali riferibili all’edificio romano, sono emerse le tracce di una capanna impostata sui pavimenti romani spoliati e dotata di un focolare con piano in laterizi, preliminarmente inquadrabile in età tardoantica/altomedievale, come le due sepolture rinvenute poco a nord di essa. Un saggio aperto in corrispondenza del centro di una delle corti porticate dell’edificio romano, infine, ha riportato in luce i resti di almeno un edificio di età pieno medievale, parte integrante di un articolato insediamento realizzato in seguito a una estesa bonifica dell’area (cfr. Paola Zanovello, Marianna Bressan, www.fastionline.org/docs/FOLDER-it-2009-145.pdf).