Molino San Vincenzo

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Molino San Vincenzo (Italy)
Molino San Vincenzo
Molino San Vincenzo
Location of the Molino San Vincenzo site

Molino San Vincenzo describes an archaeological site in the municipality of Montespertoli in Tuscany in Italy and is located about 250 m south of the Pesa River , a tributary of the Arno . It is a field name that probably derives from a no longer preserved mill (ital. Mulino , the mill) east of the site and the north of the town of San Vincenzo a Torri in the municipality of Scandicci . In the place of the mill there is now a small housing estate on via San Vincenzo , also called "Molino San Vincenzo".

The main focus of the settlement activity is the late Republican period up to the Roman Empire , which is why we can speak of a Roman villa rustica in the hinterland of the region VII Etruria .

Archaeological evidence

Image of the Molino San Vincenzo excavation in 2015
Molino San Vincenzo excavation in 2015

The site was in 2010 discovered , in 2011 made the first investigations by the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , since 2012 the research will be by the Institute of Classical Archeology at the University of Vienna under the direction of Günther Schörner performed. At least since the 19th century, the hall is - like today still - agriculturally cultivated and used for growing crops , corn and beans ; the archaeological findings are not visible above ground.

The investigations are carried out as an annual teaching and research excavation and serve both basic research and the training of students. Since 2012, in addition to excavations, geophysical prospecting ( electrics , magnetics , ground penetrating radar ), intensive surveys , geoarchaeological drilling , archaeobotanical and zoological analyzes as well as aerial archaeological measures have been carried out on the site. The archaeological structures in Molino San Vincenzo represent a rural settlement of about 3600 m² with a complex history that extends from 6th to 5th centuries. Century BC BC to the present day.

literature

  • Günther Schörner, Dominik Hagmann, Veronika Schreck: The site Molino San Vincenzo . In: Archeology of Austria . 2016, ISSN  1018-1857 , pp. 56-59 ( univie.ac.at ).
  • Günther Schörner, Dominik Hagmann, Veronika Schreck: excavation of Molino San Vincenzo, version 1 . September 16, 2014, doi : 10.13140 / RG.2.1.3490.0245 .
  • Dominik Hagmann, Veronika Schreck: New research on the rural site of Molino San Vincenzo (Tuscany, Italy) . In: Forum Archaeologiae . No. 78 / III , 2016, ISSN  1605-4636 ( univie.ac.at ).

Web links

Commons : Molino San Vincenzo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Schörner, Dominik Hagmann, Veronika Schreck: excavation of Molino San Vincenzo. Retrieved October 9, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Dominik Hagmann, Veronika Schreck: New research on the rural site of Molino San Vincenzo (Tuscany, Italy) . In: Forum Archaeologiae . No. 78 / III ( univie.ac.at ).
  3. ↑ Lorella Alderighi: Montespertoli (FI). Molino San Vincenzo: Un nuovo insediamento rurale di età romana in Val di Pesa . In: Notiario della Sopraintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana . No. 6, 2010 , 2011, ISBN 978-88-7814-555-9 , ISSN  2035-5297 , pp. 268-271 .
  4. ^ Günther Schörner, Dominik Hagmann, Veronika Schreck: The site Molino San Vincenzo . In: Archeology of Austria . No. 26/2 . Austrian Society for Prehistory and Early History, 2015, ISSN  1018-1857 , p. 56 (56-59 pp.).

Coordinates: 43 ° 41 ′ 38.9 "  N , 11 ° 5 ′ 41.8"  E