IL COMPLESSO ARTIGIANALE DI ETÀ ROMANA PRESSO CANAVACCIO DI URBINO (PU)

Abstract

In the summer of 1983, during the works for the construction of the Fano-Grosseto highway, an
artisanal area of the Roman age was intercepted at Canavaccio di Urbino in the locality of Ca’
Betto, comprising a building divided into at least six rooms preserved in the foundation and the
combustion chambers of five kilns used for the production of bricks and ceramics. The production
site was probably part of a rustic villa whose lands were distributed on the left bank of the Metauro
river near the diverticulum of the Via Flaminia that led to Urvinum Mataurense (Urbino). The
production waste from the kilns testifies to a diversified production, above all that of flat-bottomed
amphorae stamped with MAE and that of thin-walled ceramics. The chronology of the site can be
dated between the mid-1st and mid-2nd centuries AD.

Keywords: Metauro Valley; Canavaccio di Urbino; Roman kilns; ceramic production; flat-bottomed
amphorae; amphorae stamps.