Making the fragments speak. Restudying the miniature chariot of the PodereMalatesta in Casalfiumanese

Studio di un territorio di confine : la necropoli di Casalfiumanese nel quadro del popolamento delle vallate appenniniche romagnole tra Orientalizzante ed età tardo Arcaica

This study is dedicated to a corpus of finds dating back to the Iron Age, discovered in Emilia-Romagna, in the small town of Casalfumanese, south-west of Imola, which are currently conserved in the Archaeological Museum of Bologna.The first discovery was by chance: the objects were discovered by a farmer while preparing to work his field. Thereafter, illegal diggings continued without any archaeological exploration. Almost all the artefacts recovered are bronze and they have entered the museum on numerous occasions through sequestrations, sales or donations.The first chapter is dedicated to the reconstruction of the events surrounding the discoveries through the analysis of all the archival…