2023

The 2023 surveys were conducted during both the June and the September campaign of the Butrint Project. The sites involved in the field and topographic campaigns were the followings.

First visited during the 2022 field survey campaign, the drone and GNSS survey of the Hellenistic tower and the Bronze Age site of Vagalat in the Pavlla River Valley were completed adding new important data for integrating the topographic survey as well as for accomplishing a more precise knowledge of the site.

For the same reasons, the sites of Paleomanastiri and Malçani were visited in order to finalize and deepen the topographic survey already begun in 2022. In the case of Paleomanastiri, the already acquired data were integrated with a GNSS survey of part of the wall circuit and one of the best preserved gates, as well as part of the medieval church inside the wall circuit. In the case of Malçani, the GNSS and drone survey of the wall circuit was completed and the field survey of the area between the summit plateau and the circuit wall was carried out for the second time with surface scraping and collection of materials.

 Moreover, this year the team had also the chance to visit some sites in the area between the mouths of the Borsh and the Qeparo streams along the Ionian coast. The preliminary surveys conducted in the area involved the sites of Badhra, Kukumi and Karos, known for their late Bronze Age/early Iron Age wall circuits and Late Antique/Medieval occupation, as well as the so-called fortified villa of Muzga.

Team: Enrico Giorgi, Giacomo Sigismondo, Matteo Rivoli, Francesca D'Ambola, Federica Carbotti, Veronica Castignani, Ana Paci, Ilaria Latini, Carlo Bicchierai