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Excavation of CA28 was completed this year 39 meters south of the Nw corner of the "Santuario" and approx. 25 m south of CA28-1970 (EN, BK 1).  It was divided into 3 cuts; #1, from grids 16-24; #2, from grids 26-30; and #3 from grids 32-39.  One meter dikes were left beteen the cuts and not excavated due to the paucity of finds; also a 16 sq. m area in grids 32-35=NN-KK.5 was left unexcavated due to the unrewarding difficulty of the terrain. In Cut 1 excavation extended 10 m west from a line 1 m from the western sanctuary wall (grids NN-EE).  This was reduced 2 m in the west (grids EE-FF) in Cut 2 and 1 m (Grid EE) in Cut 3.  Excavation did not proceed beyond Grid 39 to meet with CA1 northern edge which lay approx. 2 m to the south.

The topography of the trench is relatively straight-forward- an etrus-

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can (?) dug ditch which follows a seemingly natural cleft in the bedrock for about 80 m (See CAST pp. 263-67; EN, BK 1 p.11 ), about 5 m from the western wall and between 2.30 and 2.75 m at its deepest.  In main it is 3-4 m wide (the "fossa") and slopes upward, usually on bedrock, another 4-5 m to the east.  On the west it tends to rise abruptly, in CA28=1971 over a bedrock shelf.

Cut 1: Bedrock banked the trench on both sides and fully interrupted it in Grid 19.  A shelf starting clearly in Grid 22-GG runs south through Grid 39 and to the north, bedrock cracked away in this grid falls abruptly to the bottom.

Cut 2: Bedrock and unmoved stone fill the cut and disallowed many finds.  The "fossa" rose abruptly in Grids 26-27=GG-II and stopped.  Grids 27-29=GG-II were excavated to galestra at a depth of 1.25 m.  In grids 29-30=GG-II the trench fell

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again and was continued in Cut 3.

Cut 3 was simply a deep trench.  Large undisturbed stones fall down the slopes in grids 36-39=NN-KK but in the fossa proper there were no interruptions.  A shelf as in cut 1 was followed in the western grid FF. Strata are as described on p. 5 and illustrated p. 127 .

Finds: All finds were mixed and fragmentary.  The vast majority were excavated 0.5 m below the befinning of the stone fill stratum B.  THe best finds lay directly on the bottom of the trench.  A few frieze plaque (campstool) fragments joined each other and fragments from CA2 and CA 1.  Most fragments were abraded.  They are summarized below:

Catalogued: 1 bowl, 1 buccheroid crater fragment, 2 spindle whorls and rocchetti, 7 statue fragments, 1 lateral sima fragment and 3 female heads (join 1 head to sima fragment), 1 panther head, 1 rabbit(?) head, 1 female "ionic" face, 1 gorgon and 2 hair fragments, 3 letter fragments, 1 akroterion fragment, 1 iron nail, 3 frieze fragments which joined other trenches.

Uncatologued:

Friezes- 18 horse race, 12 divinity, 10 banquet, 3 procession, 9 statue fragments, 6 sima fragments, 8 odd pieces, 2 tube fragments, 5 bronze pieces, 2 bags of bones.

Pottery: Six cassetti of pottery sorted.  1 box of heavy large pithoi and storage pottery.  2 boxes of mediuum coarse storage and cooking pottery.  1 box of stoorage vessel fragments, bowl fragments, and smooth pink and tan fabric- much of if bowls.  1 box of miscellany: bucchero, buccheroid, impasto, individual shapes and waves, handles etc.  1 box of feet fragments and fitting of largely preserved fragments.

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NB: For additional finds from CA28 see pp. 112 ff. in EN, Bk 1, 1970 - entered there for reasons of space.

+ p. 251 ff in this book.