The first excavation campaign at Ca' Nova di Albareto - Monte Chiaro (Albareto, PR) was carried out by the author, lecturer in Digital Archaeology at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, during the first two weeks of October 2024. The excavation campaign, limited to two weeks for logistical reasons, was severely hampered by adverse weather conditions. The site was investigated through the opening of a trench located about ten metres south of the protohistoric site identified and excavated between 2017 and 2019 following the laying of a section of gas pipeline by SNAM - Rete Gas, in an altimetrically higher position, and allowed the identification of diagnostic material generally dated to the Iron Age, as well as pebble remains associated with a probable structure. In the eastern part of the trench, several pebbles were brought to light, connected together to form the probable base of a dry masonry structure, with centimetre and pluricentimetre ceramic materials associated, through their fabric, with Iron Age ceramic production. To the west of the hypothesised structure, the levels investigated appear to be colluvial in nature, with several centimetre-sized ceramic fragments with strongly fluctuating edges. The combination of adverse weather conditions and the presence of the groundwater ade it impossible to carry out a stratigraphic study of the structures, which were nevertheless surveyed, or to collect archaeobotanical samples (for which a specialist had joined the research team). The discovery of a sanguisuga-type bronze fibula in a colluvial level with punctual comparisons in the 8th-6th century BC necropolises of the Po Valley is noteworthy. The discovery of layers in situ that can be dated to the Iron Age is of considerable importance, as Iron Age materials had already been reported when the site was discovered in 1985, but the levels investigated by the 2017-2019 emergency excavation were dated to the Bronze Age and the Iron Age materials came from colluvium levels.
La prima campagna di scavo presso il sito d’altura di Ca’ Nova di Albareto – Monte Chiaro (Albareto, PR) è stata condotta dallo scrivente, docente di Archeologia Digitale presso l’Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna nelle prime due settimane del mese di ottobre 2024. La campagna di scavo, limitata a due settimane per motivi logistici, è stata pesantemente condizionata dalle avverse condizioni meteorologiche. Il sito è stato indagato attraverso l’apertura di una trincea posta a una decina di metri ca a sud del sito protostorico individuato e scavato tra il 2017 e 2019 a seguito della posa di un tratto di metanodotto ad opera di SNAM – Rete gas, in una posizione altimetricamente più elevata e ha permesso di individuare materiale diagnostico genericamente databile all’età del ferro oltre che resti in ciottoli relativi a una probabile struttura. Nella porzione orientale della trincea sono stati messi in luce diversi ciottoli, tra loro in connessione, a formare una probabile base di struttura a secco, a cui si associano materiali ceramici di dimensioni centimetriche e pluricentimetriche riconducibili per impasto a produzioni ceramiche di età del ferro. Ad occidente dell’ipotizzata struttura i livelli indagati appaiono di natura colluviale, con diversi frammenti ceramici di dimensioni centimetriche e dai bordi molto fluitati. La concomitanza di avverse condizioni meteo e dell’affiorare della falda non ha permesso di indagare stratigraficamente le strutture, che sono state tuttavia rilevate, né di raccogliere campioni archeobotanici (per i quali si era aggregata al team di ricerca una specialista). Notevole il rinvenimento in un livello di colluvio di una fibula a sanguisuga con confronti puntuali in necropoli padane di VIII-VI sec. a.C. Il rinvenimento di strati in posto databili all’età del ferro è di notevole importanza, visto che materiali di età del ferro erano stati segnalati già alla scoperta del sito nel 1985 ma i livelli indagati dallo scavo di emergenza 2017-2019 datavano all’età del Bronzo e i materiali di età del ferro provenivano da livelli di colluvio.
Putzolu, C. (In stampa/Attività in corso). Albareto (PR), località Ca’ Nova - Monte Chiaro.
Albareto (PR), località Ca’ Nova - Monte Chiaro
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Abstract
The first excavation campaign at Ca' Nova di Albareto - Monte Chiaro (Albareto, PR) was carried out by the author, lecturer in Digital Archaeology at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, during the first two weeks of October 2024. The excavation campaign, limited to two weeks for logistical reasons, was severely hampered by adverse weather conditions. The site was investigated through the opening of a trench located about ten metres south of the protohistoric site identified and excavated between 2017 and 2019 following the laying of a section of gas pipeline by SNAM - Rete Gas, in an altimetrically higher position, and allowed the identification of diagnostic material generally dated to the Iron Age, as well as pebble remains associated with a probable structure. In the eastern part of the trench, several pebbles were brought to light, connected together to form the probable base of a dry masonry structure, with centimetre and pluricentimetre ceramic materials associated, through their fabric, with Iron Age ceramic production. To the west of the hypothesised structure, the levels investigated appear to be colluvial in nature, with several centimetre-sized ceramic fragments with strongly fluctuating edges. The combination of adverse weather conditions and the presence of the groundwater ade it impossible to carry out a stratigraphic study of the structures, which were nevertheless surveyed, or to collect archaeobotanical samples (for which a specialist had joined the research team). The discovery of a sanguisuga-type bronze fibula in a colluvial level with punctual comparisons in the 8th-6th century BC necropolises of the Po Valley is noteworthy. The discovery of layers in situ that can be dated to the Iron Age is of considerable importance, as Iron Age materials had already been reported when the site was discovered in 1985, but the levels investigated by the 2017-2019 emergency excavation were dated to the Bronze Age and the Iron Age materials came from colluvium levels.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
