2004 TRENCHES PC 19, 22, & 27 Caitlin Vacanti, Field Supervisor Jessica Galeano, Assistant Field Supervisor Field Supervisor Caitlin Vacanti at her desk on Poggio Colla. Week 1: This is my fourth season excavating at Poggio Colla. I have been fortunate enough to excavate in the same area each year, and I am consistently amazed at the surprises it yields us season after season. Trenches PC 19, 22 and 27 are in a line which runs along what was thought to be the western foundation wall of Poggio Colla's monumental structure. PC 22 is furthest south and adjacent to PC 19, followed by PC 27 to the north. After the wall was discovered in PC 19 it first appeared to be the fourth side of a rectangular building. However, during the excavation of PC 22 and ensuing excavation of PC 27, several architectural anomalies were discovered which expanded our interpretation of the building's limits. First and foremost we have found additional walls extending west beyond this rectangular building which enclose separate interior rooms from the large rectangular space. The interior space defined a preserved Hellenistic room containing pithoi filled with barley, grain and various seeds. We also discovered that the southern wall curves slightly north at its intersection with the western wall. In addition we found a wall extending east from the western wall and curving north. We theorize this to be a tower of sorts, but excavation within and around it has not suggested any function. Last season we were only able to excavate the southern locus of PC 27 the floor of which was covered entirely by stones which are "floating", or not intentionally placed. These must be some sort of wall spill but at this point it is difficult to decipher in which direction they fell, and thus which part of the structure they came from. Caitlin Vacanti at her desk near Trenches PC19, 22, and 27. This season we will re-open the eastern loci of trenches PC 19 and 22 along with the southern locus of PC 27. I hope to complete all excavation of these loci in PC 19 and 22 by bringing them down to bedrock (the core of the hill itself). It is also very important to explore further north in PC 27. In excavating the northern locus of PC 27 we hope to find more wall spill and possibly define how the stones fell. We can then remove these floating stones and in doing so see what happens to the foundation walls as they head north. Assistant Field Supervisor Jessica Galeano excavating.   Kelley Satarino and Ben Luley.   Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 - Final Report Director, Gregory Warden gwarden@mail.smu.edu Director, Michael Thomas michael.thomas@tufts.edu While the team is in Italy during the summer field season, send e-mail to: mvap3@dada.it To email an individual on the team, enter the person's last name in the subject heading. Excavation house phone: 055-844-9834, or, when calling from the US: 011-39-55-844-9834. Introduction | 2004 Field Season | Poggio Colla Field School | What’s New | Staff | Students Site History | Directors' Diaries | Student Diaries | Excavation Friends | Facilities | Conservation | Surveys Robert Belanger | Katherine Blanchard | Josh Moran | Caitlin Vacanti | Ivo van der Graaff | Robert Vander Poppen QuickTime VR | Site Set-Up | Dig Daily Life | Excavation Process | Field Manual | Lectures | Season's End Archives | Finds | Research Projects | Publications | Bibliography | Mugello Area | Home