Thursday, January 10, 2008

Plans For Building Mudroom Lockers

Completed excavation and the first phase of consolidation and drainage


the 30th of last November concluded fieldwork for the annual campaign of excavations in Graccurris .
After completing the documentation of medieval settlement, withdrew most of the structures and can be seen as all the excavated area is occupied by a large layer of sandy soils whose formation appears to be due to a period of abandonment of the area as a place room.
2008 excavations will focus on trying to understand the process that led to the formation of this layer, its duration and timing. Drains and consolidations

In the first two weeks of December also completed the work of courts and consolidation of foundations and drainage of the area adjacent to the current excavation in which was excavated between 1993 and 1999.
The first phase of this project has already protect all west end zone you a gabion wall of 1.50 m in height with a rear drain, protect the foundations of some of the walls of opus camenticium Romans and begin to repay the elevation of some areas where the project will reimburse the height at which soils were in the second century C.
One of the most complicated was the relocation of a great wall of opus caementicium more than 7 tons of weight which was turned to its original position.