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Excavation

  • Ca’ Bufalini
  • Ca’ Bufalini
  • Ad Novas
  • Italy
  • Emilia-Romagna
  • Province of Forlì-Cesena
  • Cesenatico

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • This last September saw the fourth campaign of excavation in Ca’ Bufalini (Ceseantico, FC), exploring in further detail an Roman imperial and early Byzantine site. Whereas in 2010 three trenches were opened, this year attention was focused in the exploration of only two areas: T20, supervised by PhD student Mireya Gonzalez and T21 overseen by Dr Neil Christie. Unexpectedly, in T20 -where in 2010, the remain of a hypocaust were uncovered – we discovered, still in good condition an apsidal wall. This wall might have belonged to an important part of a building – baths, dining hall? – since its construction was of very good technique and was plastered on both the internal and external façade (traces of red paint were in fact also found in the external plaster). Within the apsidal area we documented three different floor levels, but none of them, sadly despite their good quality, featured a mosaic. The interpretation of this building remains uncertain; it was erected before the hypocaust and it seems it was not connected with this later construction.

    In T21 continued the exploration of the almost 9 metres wide road that inform us about the presence on an important coastal connection between Ravenna and Rimini most probably during the late Roman Empire (perhaps, indeed when Ravenna became the imperial capital in 402). The 2011 investigations found a large ditch next to the road’s west flank, which most probably related to the water drainage system of the site. There were also the remains of a structure facing the road on the east flank – was it a taberna or a storage house or a residential space?

    Overall, from a preliminary survey of the finds collected, it seems that there was glass manufacture on site, as well as lead production. As ever, a rich assemblage of cooking pottery, fine ware and amphorae was collected. And this year we also recovered 55 coins spanning the 1st century BC to late 5th century AD, plus some WWII German pieces.

  • Denis Sami - School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester 

Director

Team

  • Fabio Visani - University of Bologna
  • Jon Coward - ULAS, Leicester
  • Sergio Gonzalez Sanchez - University of Leicester
  • Mireja Gonzales Rodriguez - University of Leicester

Research Body

  • School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester

Funding Body

  • Comune di Cesenatico

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