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  • Via Villafalletto
  • Costigliole Saluzzo
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  • Italy
  • Piedmont
  • Turin
  • Valprato Soana

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Chronology

  • 1 AD - 499 AD

Season

    • Excavations uncovered several rooms just below the agricultural soil that were heavily damaged by ploughing. The structures were part of the _vicus_ type settlement already identified in the locality of Cimitero of which residential and workshop complexes have been excavated. The structures formed two nucleuses on a north-west/south-east alignment, separated by a drainage channel on the same alignment, probably already in use in antiquity. To the north the remains of dry-stone walls built of cobblestones, preserved at the final foundation course, delimited the corner of a room whose shape could not be determined. To the south, the rooms related to different construction phases. One was small and quadrangular in plan, its walls built of cobblestones bonded with clay. It was connected to a second room of which two sections of wall were uncovered that continued beyond the trench edge towards the south. The better-preserved wall had a foundation of cobblestones bonded with weak, white mortar. On an east-west alignment, it was exposed for over 6 m and dated to a second building phase. The wall delimited, to the north, a small apsidal room and to the south two flanking rooms in one of which the threshold was preserved _in situ_. The structure, a bath building similar to those identified in the nearby _Forum Germa [...]_, occupied the sector immediately south of the _via glareata_ that was made up of small and medium sized cobbles and about 3 m wide. The road was uncovered for over 12 m and seemed to constitute the settlement’s northern limit. The discovery of residual soil containing charcoal, probably resulting from a cremation burial, suggests that the road was flanked by tombs. The few finds, mostly pottery, found during the cleaning of the walls and in the abandonment layers, provided a chronology of between the early imperial period, second or third quarter of the 1st century A.D., and the late antique period (4th-5th century A.D.). The excavation, limited to exposing the tops of the walls, was undertaken during the construction of several houses and the walls were conserved and reburied in the gardens of the individual buildings.

Bibliography

    • M.C. Preacco, 2008, Costigliole Saluzzo, via Villafalletto. Resti di edificio e di strada romana, in “Quaderni della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Piemonte”, 23: 202-203.