Excavations at the Mola Di Monte Gelato: A Roman and Medieval Settlement in South Etruria

by A.C. King, T.W. Potter, A. C. King

As part of a long-term survey of southern Etruria, the site of Monte Gelato, about 30 km north of Rome, was excavated from 1986-90. An exceptionally rich stratigraphy provided excavators with a detailed occupation narrative. An Augustan villa where dormice were eaten and eels kept as pets was abandoned in the early 3rd century AD. Sporadic settlements on the frontier zone' of Lombard incursions were succeeded by the establishment of a fortified ecclesiastical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0904152316
• ISBN13: 9780904152319
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: British School at Rome
• Length: 456 Pages