Summary (English)
The excavations of the year 2007 in the public structure revealed interesting data. Initially the clay layer was removed that covered the building surface. The results obtained confirmed again that the latest phase of the building relates to a dry stone wall. The excavations revealed an area of the building which was set on layer made of construction material. Also, a test trench was excavated close by the wall that was uncovered in the year 2006. It enabled the discovery of the abandonment and demolition layers of the structure. Consequently the excavation was located only on the surface of this area, and verified that it was build on some earlier abandonment layers, from which are preserved two parallel positioned wall lines. An excavation between the two walls discovered in the previous season revealed a new wall, positioned to the south of the existing walls. In the earliest layers of the monument was discovered a mass of large and medium size stones, which are probably related to the destruction of the monumental phase of the building. This was supported by the results of the excavations in a later layer level. A floor layer was revealed covering a well and was probably related to the structures on the north of the wall discovered in the previous year. A sondage undertaken in the drainage channel uncovered the piping system, which was partly destroyed and partly reused in the later phases of the monument.
Director
- Gianfranco Paci - Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche e Storiche dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Macerata
- Muzafer Korkuti - Albanian Academy of Science
- Roberto Perna - Università degli Studi di Macerata
Team
Research Body
- Instituti Arkeologjik Tiranë (Albanian Institute of Archaeology)
- Università degli Studi di Macerata
Funding Body
- Ford Foundation
- Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
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