Finding a Piece of an Amphora
An exciting find the first day on the dig site was the base of a Roman amphora. An amphora is a terracotta vessel used to transport liquids, probably wine. The pointed base made it easier to stack.
The Beginning of This Year’s Excavation
Our UP team has started work in the fields of Ca’n Fanals, continuing the excavation of the necropolis begun Summer 2014. The initial grave trench has been dug out even deeper and the site is in progress of being extended out past this trench. With potential for...
Ca’n Fanals: An Old Farm Sitting above an Older Necropolis
Prior to Moorish settlement of old Pollèntia and continuing into the construction of medieval Alcúdia, the necropolis that served Pollèntia into Christian antiquity was covered and lost. At some point, the soil above the cemetery was deep enough to become attractive...
Chemical Archaeology
Braving assorted adventures with TSA and US and Spanish customs inspections and approvals, the UP Team took the University’s portable XRF spectrometer to Pollèntia to test the possibility of field analysis of artifacts. Dr. Ray Bard, Associate Professor of...
Test Excavation in Ca’n Fanals Reveals a Grave
UPDATE Friday July 18 2014: This’s morning’s work has revealed more detail in the test excavation trench. The broad swath of rock once thought to be the foundation of an old wall is, in fact, limestone bedrock. The wall tentatively identified at the...
Pollèntia Teams Received by the President
Tuesday, July 15, saw all the Pollèntia research teams headed to Palma de Mallorca for a reception hosted by José Ramón Bauzà Díaz, President de les Illes Balears (Balearic Islands). The Major de Alcúdia, Dove Terrace Ventayol, met us in Palma for the reception at...
Iglesia de Sant Jaume in Alcúdia
Visible from most points in the Pollèntia excavation site, the Iglesia de Sant Jaume was completed in 1893, on the site of an earlier church dating to the fourteenth century. The original structure collapsed in 1870 and was replaced by the current Gothic church...Subscribe by Email
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