Castelraimondo III. Scavi e studi 1999-2005. In ricordo di Sara Santoro
(2026) ISBN: [978-88-3349-099-1], 562 pages, published
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- It is a well-known fact that the excavations conducted at the small town of Castelraimondo (in the municipality of Forgaria nel Friuli, Udine, Italy )—a hill approximately 450 meters high, situated between the right bank of the Tagliamento River and the Val d’Arzino—have brought to light a hilltop settlement that was continuously inhabited from the 4th century B.C. to the 10th century A.D. Excavations from 1999 to 2005 show that Castelraimondo was already inhabited between the late 6th and mid-4th centuries BCE, perhaps established for strategic control and later developed around the trade in raw iron, bars, and presumably semi-finished products from Noricum. The material culture characterizing the site appears to show a quantitative peak from the late 2nd century BCE through the early Imperial period, while quantities decline until reaching a new—albeit relative—peak in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. As for the nature of the settlement, while we might imagine a control center with a limited range of influence, featuring a small settlement with secondary—and thus artisanal—ironworking activities —and thus artisanal—in a second phase, that of Romanization and full Roman rule, the site appears to take on the character of a military outpost controlling the foothill territory, whose archaeological visibility, for the sectors investigated, extends into the early Middle Ages. This book, starting from the archaeological data and placing it in dialogue with ceramological and archaeometric ones, retraces the site's history by situating it within the vision of Sara Santoro, who successfully fostered a dialogue between university education, the conservation of the environmental and cultural landscape, and communication to the public.
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Cavalieri, M., & et al. (2026). Castelraimondo III. Scavi e studi 1999-2005. In ricordo di Sara Santoro (1e édition). EDITREG. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/277468