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2009 TRENCH PC 39
Field Supervisor:
Fiammetta Calosi,
Universita
degli Studi di Firenze
Opening
Report:
Field Supervisor
Fiammetta Calosi writing in field notebook
Italian high school
students setting up sifter for Trench PC 39
PC 39 Trench
Team #1 (high school students from Vicchio, Italy)
Italian high school team working in PC 39 during Week 4
Italian high school students sifting for finds from Trench PC
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Final
Report
Faimmetta
Calosi (seated) instructs Italian students working in PC 39
Three main pieces of
evidence resulted from this two-week period of excavation in
Trench PC 39: stratigraphy and two possible walls. As we started
to define Stratum 3, we figured out that PC 39 stratigraphy is
the same as that found in the rest of the southern area of the
acropolis already investigated.
Where Stratum 3 (a thick clay yellow stratum with many inclusions
of carbon, big fragments of tile and pottery) starts coming out,
three clear concentrations of stones appear. Before considering
these as walls, I prefer to wait until the next season to excavate
these completely and to define their relations with the strata.
The northern concentration of stones, running E-W, might be a
wall as it is linear and, because of its position, it is possibly
related to the wall found in PC 26.
The south-eastern one, running N-S, might be a wall too, as it
is quite linear (even if less clearly oriented than the northern
one) and probably situated in a similar position to buttressing
walls often found along the edges of the acropolis.
Two big stones situated in the west central part of the trench
seem to lie in a line and are worked, but these are probably
too high to be related to any architectural structure.
Field Director
Fiammetta Calosi with Trench PC 39 Team #2 (Vicchio high school
students)
Mike Guarino and Bill Beck continue work in PC 39 after the high
school program
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