Nuevas investigaciones de la Universidad de Bolonia en el asentamiento púnico y romano de Sarcapos (Villaputzu, Cerdeña): prospecciones geofísicas 2017

In 2017 the University of Bologna carried out an extensive geophysical survey at the Punic-Roman settlement located in Santa Maria di Villaputzu (south-eastern Sardinia), along the left bank of the Flumendosa river. The research has made it possible to identify some anomalies caused, with good approximation, by underground archaeological structures, presumably pertinent to the living quarters of the ancient Sarcapos, mentioned by the Itinerarium Antonini along the road a Portu Tibulas Caralis. Moreover, it was possible to highlight another anomaly of curvilinear profile, perhaps attributable to a palaeo-river bed or to artificial canal or moat.