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Torre Santa Sabina: Settlement

PKC6341
TITLETorre Santa Sabina: Settlement
WGS84 40.760286° N, 17.697211° E
Accuracy Exact

LAT/LON 40.760286, 17.697211
LON/LAT 17.697211, 40.760286

DMS 40° 45' 37.0296" N,17° 41' 49.9596" E

W3Wlandlord, times, pulsates
UTM33 T, 727672, 4515647
EGSA87 -32302, 4531012

Elevation m-1
Elevation feet -3.3
RegionItaly
SubregionApulia





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Settlement

TYPE

1.    settlement.   Auriemma et al. [2005], 8    'The human presence is testified during the Late Bronze Age by the existence of a settlement whose more evident traces are pile's holes aligned water-front no more then 20m inland respect the coastal line at about 1m a.p.s.l. (area b in fig.1).'

or (reworked by rhc) : 'Human presence during the Late Bronze Age is attested to by the existence of a settlement whose more evident traces are holes for piles, aligned with the water front, about 1 m. above sea level on the average, and no more than 20 m. inland with respect to the coast line (area b in fig. 1).'


2.    Sword.   Bettelli [2002], 24    'Nella zona della masseria Caposenno Piccolo 3, è stata riscontrata la presenza di alcune tombe a fossa, da una delle quali proviene una piccola spada o pugnale con immanicatura a T, che D. Coppola confronta con alcuni esemplari da Pantalica e epiroti risalenti al TE IIIC.'


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIC: (1190 BC - 1060 BC)
    a.    Auriemma et al. [2005]: 8, ?? ' ... the Late Bronze Age ... '
    b.    Bettelli [2002]: , ' ..., che D. Coppola confronta con alcuni esemplari da Pantalica e epiroti risalenti al TE IIIC.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Auriemma et al. [2005]:  Auriemma, R. and G. Mastronuzzi , P. Sansò & F. Zongolo. ‘The harbour of the mansio ad speluncas (Brindisi, Italy): a key to the lecture of sea level changes in the past 3500 years?’, WIT Transactions on The Built Environment (79) 5-14. 2005., '3.2 Archaeological data', pg. 8. Online here.

2.  Bettelli [2002]:  Bettelli, Marco. Italia meridionale e mondo miceneo. Ricerche su dinamiche di acculturazione e aspetti archeologici, con particolare riferimento ai versanti adriatico e ionico della penisola italiana. No. 5 in Grandi Contesti e Problemi della Protostoria italiana. All'Insegna del Giglio, Firenze, Italia. 2002., '31. Torre S. Sabina, Carovigno (Brindisi)', pg. 24. Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6341 is at 40.76045° N, 17.69691° E, a straight-line distance of 31.5 m.