Preliminary results from GPR survey at the Roman villa of Caddeddi (Siracusa, Italy)

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 2204; no. 1; pp. 12006 - 12011
• Main Authors: Tanasi, D., Hassam, S., Trapani, P., Cali, D., De Giorgi, L., Ferrari, I., Giuri, G., Leucci, G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.04.2022
• Subjects: Farmhouses; Ground penetrating radar; Physics; Remote sensing
• ISSN: 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/2204/1/012006

The Villa of Caddeddi, in the territory of Noto (Siracusa) is located on the south bank of the Tellaro river, about 3km from its mouth. The site, interpreted as a rural luxury residence dated to the 4th-5th century CE, was first discovered in 1972 and intermittently investigated in the subsequent decades and mostly studied from the perspectives of the splendid mosaic floors there uncovered. The excavated structure accounts for just a portion of the complex, which is partially covered by an 18th-19th century farmhouse. After a long period of neglect, the villa has been recently restored and opened to the public and become subject of new studies by the University of South Florida’s Institute for Digital Exploration (IDEx) which in 2019 and 2020 conducted a remote sensing campaign entailing terrestrial laserscanning and ground penetrating radar.