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T-23 1981 Summary of the Cuts

Cut 1 : 0-40 cm

  • Tile: 2 cassette
  • Pottery: 1 box
  • Soil: Topsoil
  • Finds: ---
  • General: ---

Cut 2 : 40-60 cm

  • Tile: 17 cassette
  • Pottery: 12 boxes
  • Soil:  The soil of this cut was generally orange-light with carbon and tile.  The orange-light soil sometimes did not appear until 60 cm as in A/11, C/11-12, BB/11-12 D/11-12 where the orange layer was covered first with brown gray soil.  Meter B/11 was brown-gray with less burn layer - there were some small stones concentrated here.  At 40 cm, a stone packing was encountered in D-C/10.
  • Finds:  Ivory fragments (235), bronze nails (28), large bronze fragment (2), bronze sheet (3), bronze pin head (3), bronze fibula, bronze rivet, bronze brace, bronze bead with silver, bronze spike head, bronze tacks (3), ridged bronze, iron spike (2), iron nail, iron nail head, obsidian (2), carbonized beans (4), stamped orangeware (2), carbonized seeds (7), rocchetto (4), alabaster, spindle whorl, stone with hole, worked bone (2 or more), incised pottery, painted pottery,

  • ribbed terracotta, tile with glass slag, terracotta roof decoration, cut-out akroterion, ceramic animal head
  • General:  Possible large chiseled stone found in meters BB/11 ( see MT IV p. 81 ) was left on the site beside the trench.

Cut 3 : 60-90 cm

  • Tile: 39 cassette
  • Pottery: 27 boxes
  • Soil:  In general, the soil of this cut was orange-light with carbon from 60-70 cm in depth, gray-brown from 70-85 cm, and then dark gray with carbon at 85-90 cm.  In A/11-12, the soil was light gray and sandy; at 90 cm, it was clay-like.  In B/11, the soil was darker gray but still contained the orange-light from 60-70 cm.  There was more tile in meters B/12 and D/12.  Meters AA-BB-CC/11-12 contained mainly yellow or brown gray soil.
  • Finds: Bronze nails (25), possible bronze decoration, lead lump, lead slag (3), ivory pieces (31), bone triangle, incised bone handle and fragment to same, carved bone fragment, incised bone fragment, carbonized wood dowel, carbonized wood cube, carbonized seed, carbonized beans (15), bronze fibula, iron sheet, terracotta "eggs" (10), stone "missles" (11), rocchetti (8), biconical spindle whorl, bronze vessel fragment, painted pottery (4), glazed pottery, stamped bucchero, stamped grayware

  • twisted orangeware handle, bucchero finial, painted terracotta, ribbed terracotta, terracotta lump, covertile with Etruscan chi
  • General:  Most finds of this cut occurred in the orange light soil.  At 90 cm, there is a rock packing in meters D/10-11-12 and C/10-11-12.

Cut 4 : 90 cm - 1.2 m

  • Tile: 1 cassetta
  • Pottery: 2 boxes
  • Soil:  Generally, the soil of this cut was gray-brown and very clay-like.  In C-B/12, there was a very light soil at 90 cm - 1.0 m and below this the gray-brown yellow clay.  The soil is almost totally barren and similar to virgin soil.
  • Finds: Stamped bucchero, stamped and incised bucchero, painted pottery (2), green stone
  • General:  This cut did not contain much pottery or tile.  There was a stone packing in C/11-12 from 90 cm to 1.2 m (as there was in D/10-11-12 and C/10) which was lefti n place.  There was a very large stone in A/12 which also has been left in place.

Cut 5 : 1.2 m - 1.6 m

  • Tile: ---
  • Pottery: ---
  • Soil:  The soil of this cut was light-yellow, hard, and claylike in AA-BB-CC/11-12 where a galestra floor was reached at 1.6 m.  The soil was a dark brown in A-B/11-12 and here the floor was brought to a bright yellow or gray clay at 1.6 m.  The soil at 1.6 m, the floor level, in meter B-C/12 was dark brown.
  • General: ---
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MT IV info
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Mark Tobey info
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Iron age info
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Mark Tobey. (2017) "MT IV (1981-08-06):150-155; T-23 1981 Summary of the Cuts from Europe/Italy/Poggio Civitate/Tesoro/Tesoro 23/1981, ID:419". In Murlo. Anthony Tuck (Ed). Released: 2017-10-04. Open Context. <https://opencontext.org/documents/a35414b6-e4c1-462c-9c81-2dcc3fc1e511> ARK (Archive): https://n2t.net/ark:/28722/k2m333n42

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