Name
Ventaroli
Date Range
100 – 200
400 – 600
Monuments
Baths
Road

Seasons

  • AIAC_1730 - Ventaroli - 2002
    In spring 2002 investigations were undertaken at Carinola on the site of Forum Claudii, along the road leading from Ventaroli to the church of S. Maria in Foro Claudio. In correspondence with several vaulted structures visible above ground level, interpreted by W. Johannowsky as rooms belonging to a bath complex, a stratigraphic sequence was identified with numerous sub-phases substantially ascribable to two phases. The earliest phase, characterised by a stretch of drain also servicing the bath complex, dates to round about the late mid-Imperial period. The later phase, generically datable to the early medieval period, but certainly post 5th-6th century A.D., saw the robbing and abandonment of the Imperial settlement, with the construction of the present road over the razed Roman walls. The layers covering the drain and surrounding area and also the fill produced numerous bronze coins which, following conservation, should provide useful dating information for the various occupation phases of the site.

Media

Name
Ventaroli
Year
2002
Summary
en In spring 2002 investigations were undertaken at Carinola on the site of Forum Claudii, along the road leading from Ventaroli to the church of S. Maria in Foro Claudio.

In correspondence with several vaulted structures visible above ground level, interpreted by W. Johannowsky as rooms belonging to a bath complex, a stratigraphic sequence was identified with numerous sub-phases substantially ascribable to two phases.

The earliest phase, characterised by a stretch of drain also servicing the bath complex, dates to round about the late mid-Imperial period. The later phase, generically datable to the early medieval period, but certainly post 5th-6th century A.D., saw the robbing and abandonment of the Imperial settlement, with the construction of the present road over the razed Roman walls.

The layers covering the drain and surrounding area and also the fill produced numerous bronze coins which, following conservation, should provide useful dating information for the various occupation phases of the site.
it A Carinola, nel sito di Forum Claudii si sono svolte, nella primavera del 2002, alcune indagini esplorative lungo la strada che dalla frazione di Ventaroli conduce alla basilica di S. Maria in Foro Claudio.

In corrispondenza di alcune strutture emergenti coperte a volta, già interpretate da W. Johannowsky quali vani di un impianto termale, è stata evidenziata una stratigrafia con numerose sottofasi ascrivibili sostanzialmente a due momenti.

Una fase più antica, caratterizzata da un tratto di fogna anche a servizio delle terme suddette, risale all’incirca all’avanzata età medio-imperiale; quella più recente, databile genericamente al periodo alto-medievale, ma certamente dopo il V-VI secolo d.C., rappresenta il momento di spoliazione ed abbandono dell'insediamento di epoca imperiale, con l’installarsi dell’attuale viabilità sulla rasatura delle strutture murarie romane.

Dagli strati che coprivano la fogna e l’area limitrofa ed in parte anche dal riempimento provengono numerosissime monete bronzee, destinate, dopo il restauro, a fornire utili dati per la precisazione della cronologia delle varie fasi di frequentazione del sito.
Summary Author
Stefano De Caro
Director
Francesco Sirano
Funding Body
Comune di Carinola
Team
Archaeologist - A. Guarino

Media

  • De Caro 2003
    S. De Caro 2003, L’attività della Soprintendenza archeologica di Napoli e Caserta nel 2002, in Atti del XLII Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 2002), Taranto: 569-621.

Location

Ancient Site Name
Forum Claudii
Location
Ventaroli
Easting
13.988399
Northing
41.211644