Excavations in the Road Trench Area of Crustumerium and Future Research Prospects

Approaching Road-Cuttings as Instruments of Early Urbanization in Central Tyrrhenian Italy

“…1; for Veii : Ward-Perkins, 1961: 15, 40–7, fig. 12; Cascino, Di Sarcina and Rendeli, 2012: 343; also Kahane, Murray Threipland and Ward-Perkins, 1968: 30–1, 33, 54; and for Crustumerium : Jarva et al , 2013.…”

“… 7 Considering the effects of erosion, landslides and soil sedimentation on road-cuttings, distinguishing between natural and artificial depressions in the landscape during surveys may prove challenging at times. Excavations at the trincea viaria cutting at Crustumerium (for example: Jarva et al , 2013: 39) show that road-cuttings may have been filled — deliberately or naturally — with soil in the course of history, thus rendering them nearly or completely invisible in the landscape: for instance, the locations of other possible road-cuttings at Crustumerium , such as those revealed in a magnetic survey conducted by the research team from the University of Groningen in 2011, are observable on the surface only as gentle, nondescript depressions at best.…”

Pre-Colonial Latin Colonies and the Transition to the Mid-Republican Period in the Faliscan Area and South Etruria: Orientalizing, Archaic and Late Archaic Settlement and Funerary Evidence From the Nepi Survey

“…Cifani (2003: 185) used the child burials at Falerii Veteres (Pasqui, 1903: 454–5) and Vignanello (Giglioli, 1924: 240–4) both as the evidence of burying infants within the settlements and of the extent of the settlement area resulting in a circular argument. These finds may represent liminal markers or outliers (for Crustumerium, Jarva et al ., 2013: 42–4) or enchrytrismos burials in the normal cemeteries (Belelli Marchesini, 2013: figs 14 and 20, p. 105).…”