2004 TRENCH PC 20 Ivo van der Graaff, Field Supervisor Sarah Titus, Assistant Field Supervisor Week 5: Field Students: Nicole (CoCo) Berastequi Jeff Edwards Lindsey Lindley Volunteer: Fiametta Calosi Left to right: Ivo van der Graaff, CoCo Berastequi, Amy Dahm, Sarah, Titus, and Greg Warden. This week has been characterized by the full formation of the team in our trench. In fact the community effort among us is rapidly gaining strength as we gain more confidence and reliability in each other's abilities. The work is still hard but the merry atmosphere among us is making the job lighter by the day. Wall in south locus of Trench PC 20 as seen from the south. The trench has been yielding many finds and continues to amaze most of us on the dig. Not only have the artifacts we uncovered yielded much new information, also the deeper levels of our section have revealed interesting new features. An important new development is our discovery of a second coursing of wall underneath what we thought was a lonely phase one architectural block. The depth of our trench permitted us to ascertain that we had discovered a wall, which is to be attributed to the oldest occupation event witnessed by our site. This architectural feature seems to be falling in line with similar blocks uncovered in earlier years of the excavation, further validating the theory that they actually belong to the earliest architecture placed on the area. Furthermore the blocks are surrounded by a foundation trench, which was originally dug in the bedrock to accommodate them. This trench appears to be the only clear-cut example of such a feature to have been discovered on the site, further adding importance to our discovery. Above and below: foundation trench with two large blocks visible in scarp in Trench PC 20. Other work in the trench has revealed that our southern terrace wall is actually resting on bedrock. This might mean that this wall is actually earlier in date than we thought, unless someone took the trouble to dig through the earlier occupation levels to accommodate it. The stratigraphy however has been stubborn in giving up answers to this question and further excavation will be needed in the adjacent loci to test this theory. Southern terrace wall in Trench PC 20. Stratigraphy in west profile of Trench PC 20 (perpendicularly contiguous to photo above). Excavations on the north side of the wall however have revealed large fragments of Bucchero vessels, which seem to join others we have found on the south side of it. This circumstance seems to corroborate the theory that the event surrounding the construction of the wall included the digging of a foundation trench (similar to the one mentioned above) through these lower layers, as the former now seem to testify a single depositional event. As the dig continues into its final phases I am confident that our crew will work to the best of their efforts, before this season draws to a close, to answer the new developments posed by our section. Jeff Edwards and Lindsey Lindley in Trench PC 20 (north of the southernmost terrace wall).   Jeff Edwards and Lindsey Lindley excavating next to the circular feature in the south locus of PC 20, while Sarah Titus and Ivo van der Graaff coach them from the side of the trench.   Lindsey Lindley working in a small area between the wall and the scarp.   View from the south of the west half of Trench PC 20.   Nicole Berastequi and Amy Dahm opening the southwest corner of PC 20.   Ivo van der Graaff surveying the location of bucchero finds in his trench.   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