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Figure 7. Survey map of Rive d’Arcano (UD) Figure 8. Survey map of Ponte San Quirino (UD)
(after Quarina 1943). (after Quarina 1943).
ed by a ditch on its outer side (Visentini et al. a type of settlement known throughout Western
2015) (Figures 5 and 6). This type of settlement and Central Europe under the name of “éperon
was already known in Friuli since the first years barré” or “barred spur”, although the term indi-
of the 20th century, with some typological vari- cates a vast and various complex of settlements
ants in two towns in the province of Udine: Rive protected by embankments which seem to have
d’Arcano (Figure 7), near San Daniele del Friu- appeared during the early metal ages in that area
li, where northwards of the morainal promonto- (Càssola Guida 2011).
ry there is a rectilinear embankment, and Pon-
te San Quirino, near Cividale (Figure 8), that is As previously said, at Meduno the defen-
also the originating site of the Eneolithic lithic sive embankment runs for 115 m in length and
industry (Gerdol and Stacul 1978, 70-80). Con- 6-7 m in width. It is composed by a modest silt
versely to those two sites, the village of Meduno core and characterised, especially in the north-
was not surveyed by Lodovico Quarina who, in ern part, by the presence of big boulders proba-
the 1930s, was inspired by the research works of bly gathered from the western borders of the site
Giovanni Battista De Gasperi (Marinelli 1922) or the Meduna riverbed (Figure 9). The earth-
and, most of all, Achille Tellini (Tellini 1900), work is characterised on the outside by the pres-
and described many of those emerging protohis- ence of an open conical ditch more than 2 me-
toric structures. At that time the embankment tres deep, as recorded in the western edge (Figure
was probably clearly visible, as it was only inter- 10). According to the present research, in addi-
rupted by one rural road, just like now. But given tion to the various pottery and metal sherds of
the similarity between the two above-mentioned
settlements, Meduno-Sach di Sotto could be in-
cluded in the category Quarina named “Castel-
lieri (hillforts) near watercourses” (category C)
(Quarina 1943). In truth, now we know that it is
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Figure 7. Survey map of Rive d’Arcano (UD) Figure 8. Survey map of Ponte San Quirino (UD)
(after Quarina 1943). (after Quarina 1943).
ed by a ditch on its outer side (Visentini et al. a type of settlement known throughout Western
2015) (Figures 5 and 6). This type of settlement and Central Europe under the name of “éperon
was already known in Friuli since the first years barré” or “barred spur”, although the term indi-
of the 20th century, with some typological vari- cates a vast and various complex of settlements
ants in two towns in the province of Udine: Rive protected by embankments which seem to have
d’Arcano (Figure 7), near San Daniele del Friu- appeared during the early metal ages in that area
li, where northwards of the morainal promonto- (Càssola Guida 2011).
ry there is a rectilinear embankment, and Pon-
te San Quirino, near Cividale (Figure 8), that is As previously said, at Meduno the defen-
also the originating site of the Eneolithic lithic sive embankment runs for 115 m in length and
industry (Gerdol and Stacul 1978, 70-80). Con- 6-7 m in width. It is composed by a modest silt
versely to those two sites, the village of Meduno core and characterised, especially in the north-
was not surveyed by Lodovico Quarina who, in ern part, by the presence of big boulders proba-
the 1930s, was inspired by the research works of bly gathered from the western borders of the site
Giovanni Battista De Gasperi (Marinelli 1922) or the Meduna riverbed (Figure 9). The earth-
and, most of all, Achille Tellini (Tellini 1900), work is characterised on the outside by the pres-
and described many of those emerging protohis- ence of an open conical ditch more than 2 me-
toric structures. At that time the embankment tres deep, as recorded in the western edge (Figure
was probably clearly visible, as it was only inter- 10). According to the present research, in addi-
rupted by one rural road, just like now. But given tion to the various pottery and metal sherds of
the similarity between the two above-mentioned
settlements, Meduno-Sach di Sotto could be in-
cluded in the category Quarina named “Castel-
lieri (hillforts) near watercourses” (category C)
(Quarina 1943). In truth, now we know that it is
