2005 Castle Excavations

The 2005 field season was spent excavating outside the main gate of the Salemi castle.

Here, to our suprise, we uncovered a large section of an intact Hellenistic era house floor. No where else in Salemi has the preservation of this time period been so good! Not only did we expose intact architecture, but also had a series of incredible ceramic finds as well.

Not to mention gold!

Map of Salemi

Map of Castle Excavation Units

Map of Ancient Sicily

Excavation s2005Our gold digger

Cleaning potteryDigging!The excavations progress The house floor

The excavation progress The dig boss!

The 2005 crew Zap!

Gold!


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