The sea-port of Portus Scabris/Portiglioni (GR) near Puntone di Scarlino was used uninterruptedly from the Etruscan to modern times and represented the main commercial hub for maritime trade and inland redistribution of commodities in the Pecora Valley. Rescue archaeological work … Read More
An archaeometric study on pottery from different archaeological sites (Capalbiaccio, Colle Massari, San Martino in Piano, Rocchette Pannocchieschi, Donoratico, Castellina, Rocca degli Alberti and Casa Andreoni) located in south-western Tuscany (in a territory within the Colline Metallifere and the Tyrrhenian … Read More
In the frame of collaboration between the Department of Historical Science and Cultural Heritage and the Department of Physical, Earth and Environmental Sciences (R.U. Cultural Heritage Conservation) of the University of Siena , many samples of mortars collected from the … Read More
An analysis was carried out on the cartographic documentation produced between 16th and 19th centuries concurrently with the excavation drive in Carlappiano (Piombino) and Vetricella (Scarlino) concerning the coastal area between Piombino, Follonica and Val di Pecora. The most reliable … Read More
Several samples of metallurgical slags and some metallic fragments have been found during the last excavation campaignat Vetricella (Scarlino). The analysis of these materials (metallography, chemistry and mineralogy) can help to define what type of metal production/working was conducted in … Read More
The team of the Laboratory of Vegetation History and Wood Anatomy (Department of Agriculture Sciences, University of Naples “Federico II”) is carrying out the first anthracological analyses, focusing on the archaeological and soil samples from the archaeological site of Cugnano and … Read More
This week Prof. John Mitchell ,an art historian from the University of East Anglia (UEA) , is studying and analyzing the metals found in Vetricella (Scarlino) site at the lab of Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e dei Beni Culturali dell’Università … Read More
In July 2016 new pXRF analysis were conducted on selected coins directly in the Archaeological museum of Florence. The instrument and its special laboratory station have been moved from the Siena University’s laboratories to the Florence museum.… Read More
Many fragments of iron slag have been found during surface surveys at Vetricella. Most of them, according to their typical plane or plano-convex shape – could be interpreted as smithing slags, and are constituted by variable proportions of fayalite (Fe2SiO4), wüstite (FeO), magnetite (Fe3O4), iron oxyhydroxides and quartz.
A few small iron bars have also been recovered: metallic iron is still present in the bar core, surrounded by a thick patina of alteration products (magnetite, maghemite and iron hydroxides: XRD analysis). They could represent the final products of smithing activity…… Read More
Between January and March the findings from the surveys at Carlappiano were studied following some established procedures:
-Cleansing of the finds
-Marking with the excavation data on every single ceramic fragment
-Quantity inventory with subdivision into different ceramics classes
-Cataloging into a database of every single ceramic fragment… Read More
