The paper deals with the excavation and documentation of the two late-medieval wrecks discovered adjacent to the submerged island of San Marco in Boccalama, Venice lagoon. The methodologies, the problems encountered and the technical solutions adopted during the underwater works and the subsequent drying of the site are described. This has been a technically very complex archaeological work on an extraordinary site, which has preserved the remains of the submerged medieval monastery together with two big hulls that were reused for architectural purposes, as foundation caissons: that of a galley and of a flat-bottomed ship, the rascona, almost a paradigm of the "hinge" function that the lagoon always had in relation to long-distance maritime navigation and inland navigation in northern Italy.
Il contributo è dedicato ai lavori di scavo e documentazione dei due relitti tardo-medievali scoperti presso l'isola sommersa di San Marco in Boccalama, laguna di Venezia. Sono descritte le metodologie, i problemi incontrati e le soluzioni tecniche adottate nella fase dei lavori subacquei e nella successiva fase di messa in secco del sito. Un intervento archeologico particolarmente complesso sul piano tecnico, in un sito straordinario, che ha conservato i resti del monastero medievale sommerso con accanto due scafi reimpiegati a fini architettonici, come casseri di fondazione: quello di una galea e di una nave a fondo piatto, la rascona, quasi un paradigma della funzione di "cerniera" che la laguna ha sempre rivestito in rapporto alla navigazione marittima di lungo corso e a quella lungo le acque interne dell'Italia settentrionale.
La storia del ritrovamento. Il sito archeologico di San Marco in Boccalama
S. Medas
2002
Abstract
The paper deals with the excavation and documentation of the two late-medieval wrecks discovered adjacent to the submerged island of San Marco in Boccalama, Venice lagoon. The methodologies, the problems encountered and the technical solutions adopted during the underwater works and the subsequent drying of the site are described. This has been a technically very complex archaeological work on an extraordinary site, which has preserved the remains of the submerged medieval monastery together with two big hulls that were reused for architectural purposes, as foundation caissons: that of a galley and of a flat-bottomed ship, the rascona, almost a paradigm of the "hinge" function that the lagoon always had in relation to long-distance maritime navigation and inland navigation in northern Italy.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.