The fortified settlement of Rocca Montis Dragonis (Caserta) is located on the top of Mount Petrino, in the middle of an area adjoining to northwest the plain of Sessa, to south the fertile plain of the “Campania Felix”, crossed by the river Volturno and extended until the volcan Vesuvius and to west the sea. Since the year 2001, there were going on annual archaeological excavations, runned by the Civic Archaeological Museum of Mondragone. The fortified settlement, known on written sources in the early XIIth century, is a big size hilltop site, characterized by a group of interior spaces and structures rather complex and hierarchically distributed in three different areas. Important finds are the potteries and the numismatic evidence, and the metal and vitreous artefacts discovered in the excavation areas; imported ceramic production, as enamelled polychrome vessels, gave evidences of significant economic exchanges between the fortified settlement and the sites of central Italy. In particular the study of the production and the circulation of glass vessels rescued in the excavations and dated to the last phase of the fortified settlement (XIV-XVth c.), sought to deepen the knowledge about the manufactory and the distribution and use of glass vessels in south Italy, during the last decades of middle age. Most of the buildings investigated up to now on the hilltop plateau and in the first village, were in use until the XVIth century, when the collapse of the roofs obliterates them, being the cause of the desertion of the entire settlement.
Nuovi dati sulla produzione e la circolazione del vasellame vitreo in Campania proveniente da un contesto di scavo tardomedievale: la Rocca Montis Dragonis
SOGLIANI, FRANCESCA
2012-01-01
Abstract
The fortified settlement of Rocca Montis Dragonis (Caserta) is located on the top of Mount Petrino, in the middle of an area adjoining to northwest the plain of Sessa, to south the fertile plain of the “Campania Felix”, crossed by the river Volturno and extended until the volcan Vesuvius and to west the sea. Since the year 2001, there were going on annual archaeological excavations, runned by the Civic Archaeological Museum of Mondragone. The fortified settlement, known on written sources in the early XIIth century, is a big size hilltop site, characterized by a group of interior spaces and structures rather complex and hierarchically distributed in three different areas. Important finds are the potteries and the numismatic evidence, and the metal and vitreous artefacts discovered in the excavation areas; imported ceramic production, as enamelled polychrome vessels, gave evidences of significant economic exchanges between the fortified settlement and the sites of central Italy. In particular the study of the production and the circulation of glass vessels rescued in the excavations and dated to the last phase of the fortified settlement (XIV-XVth c.), sought to deepen the knowledge about the manufactory and the distribution and use of glass vessels in south Italy, during the last decades of middle age. Most of the buildings investigated up to now on the hilltop plateau and in the first village, were in use until the XVIth century, when the collapse of the roofs obliterates them, being the cause of the desertion of the entire settlement.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
