resti di strutture romane e altomedievali

Just west of the church of San Lorenzo, excavations between 1992 and 1998 uncovered a layered slice of Roman and early medieval life. The earliest evidence, dating from the 1st to the 4th century AD, consists of pebble-and-mortar walls forming a large room (about 10 by 7.25 metres) with a cocciopesto floor, that distinctive Roman crushed-pottery concrete, showing several phases of construction. No closing walls were found, suggesting an open-sided structure, perhaps a porticoed space or workshop. A narrow corridor, just over a metre wide, runs along its western side.

Around the 4th to 5th century, this spacious room was subdivided with wooden partitions; a hearth and charcoal-rich layer appeared above the cocciopesto floor. Then came the inevitable Roman spoliation: the robbing of reusable materials. Nearby, scattered pebbles, brick fragments, and disarticulated human bones hint at the early Christian and early medieval inhumation cemetery that grew up around the church, a quieter, more sombre use of the same ground.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.