The Area Scheibler, located in the Western outskirts of Pisa, has been the place of discoveries and rescue excavations since the 1980s. Such discoveries testified the long lasting history of this sector of the ancient suburb – formerly crossed by the Auser river course – from the Iron Age to the Early Middle Age, with a consistent Roman phase. The 2020 campaign has been the first planned stratigraphic excavation ever run in this site in order to verify the hypothesis and define both the chronology and the nature of the human settlement in the area. Thus, we have been able to investigate a complex stratigraphic sequence: back to the Late republican Age can be dated the walls and the very well-preserved floor of a farmhouse. This was deliberately abandoned during the early decades of the Imperial Age, when a new compound with huge walls and a bricks well developed drainage system was contextually built. Between the 3rd and the 4th cent. AD more floods caused the partial destruction of the building. During the 7th cent. AD a new structure built in perishable building material, connected to Tunisian fine table ware and amphorae and soapstone cooking pots consumption, marked a new occupation of the site, which was finally destroyed by a new alluvial event.

L’Area Scheibler, nella periferia occidentale di Pisa, è oggetto di ritrovamenti e scavi di emergenza sin dagli anni ’80 del XX secolo. Questi attestano la lunga storia insediativa di questo settore del suburbio, percorso in epoca antica dal fiume Auser, dall’età del Ferro a tutta l’età romana, fino all’altomedioevo. In particolare, il recente riesame dei materiali di quei vecchi scavi ha permesso di ipotizzare la presenza nell’area di un complesso di notevole impegno costruttivo, forse una villa con relativa pars rustica tra i cui resti si sarebbe poi insediata la comunità di età longobarda che, nella stessa area, ha sepolto i propri defunti. La campagna di scavo 2020 (area 4), che costituisce il primo scavo stratigrafico programmato condotto nell’Area Scheibler, si prefiggeva di valutare la consistenza delle ipotesi formulate e di circostanziare tempi e modi della frequentazione. L’indagine ha permesso di indagare una sequenza stratigrafica articolata: alla tarda età repubblicana si datano le strutture e i piani pavimentali, particolarmente ben conservati, di un edificio di carattere rurale; la struttura è deliberatamente abbandonata nei primi decenni dell’età imperiale, in concomitanza con la costruzione di un complesso caratterizzato da strutture murarie di notevole impegno e dotato di una rete idrica con canalette in laterizi. Tra III e IV sec. d. C. una serie di eventi alluvionali determina la distruzione parziale del complesso.

Pisa Progetto Suburbio: l’Area Scheibler. La campagna di scavo 2020

Campus, Antonio
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2021

Abstract

The Area Scheibler, located in the Western outskirts of Pisa, has been the place of discoveries and rescue excavations since the 1980s. Such discoveries testified the long lasting history of this sector of the ancient suburb – formerly crossed by the Auser river course – from the Iron Age to the Early Middle Age, with a consistent Roman phase. The 2020 campaign has been the first planned stratigraphic excavation ever run in this site in order to verify the hypothesis and define both the chronology and the nature of the human settlement in the area. Thus, we have been able to investigate a complex stratigraphic sequence: back to the Late republican Age can be dated the walls and the very well-preserved floor of a farmhouse. This was deliberately abandoned during the early decades of the Imperial Age, when a new compound with huge walls and a bricks well developed drainage system was contextually built. Between the 3rd and the 4th cent. AD more floods caused the partial destruction of the building. During the 7th cent. AD a new structure built in perishable building material, connected to Tunisian fine table ware and amphorae and soapstone cooking pots consumption, marked a new occupation of the site, which was finally destroyed by a new alluvial event.
2021
Settore L-ANT/07 - Archeologia Classica
Settore ARCH-01/D - Archeologia classica
Pisa; Etruria; villa romana; Longobardi; età repubblicana; età imperiale; età tardoantica; suburbio
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