Fieldwork completed thanks to the support of the FortNet Project grants.
The aim of this fieldwork campaign was the analysis and study of the findings discovered over four years of excavations on the Acropolis of Butrint (2019-2023) by the Italian and Albanian Butrint Project. Spanning from the Bronze Age up to the late 1700s and including a wide variety of vessels, bronze and glass objects, coins, bricks, tiles, and even weapons, these all have an important role in understanding how people lived on the Acropolis of Butrint over centuries.
At the same time, materials collected during fieldwalking surveys in fortified hilltop sites of ancient coastal Chaonia, such as Karos, Kukum and Badhra, were analysed and highlighted a longer occupation of these sites than previously known.
The Italian and Albanian Archaeological Project in Çuka e Ajtoit reprised fieldwork of the previous years by focusing on the excavations on the terrace of the so-called Palace, as well as on fieldwalking survey with findings collection and topographic survey on the summit of the Çuka e Ajtoit hill. Excavations were also extended to the church and the Ottoman village of nearby Çiflik, located at the foot of the hill of Çuka e Ajtoit.
The 2024 campaign was also committed to surveys in the site of the region surrounding Çuka e Ajtoit in order to better understand the development of population dynamics in ancien times.
The tenth campaign of the Butrint Project continued excavations on the Acropolis of Butrint, where a building related to the latest phase of occupation of the city was found along with new interesting data on the construction of the Archaic wall circuit of the Acropolis.
At the same time, fieldwalking and topographic surveys focused on the area between the Porto Palermo bay and the archaeological site of Borsh by surveying the Bronze Age sites of Badhra, Kukum, the so-called fortified villa of Muzga, the Hellenistic and Roman site of Hundesova near Lukova and the site of Borsh itself. The area of the Pavlla River valley was surveyed as well, in particular the so-called fortified villa of Metoq near Saranda, the so-called Dema wall, at the begging of the Ksamil peninsula, and the site of Kalivo, located opposite to Butrint.
