KAPEN OP DE KUST AANVULLEND EN VOORBEREIDEND VELDWERK IN DE PONTIJNSE REGIO, JULI/AUGUSTUS 2001

Samenvatting

In tandem with the 2001 GIA excavations on the Pontine coast (reported elsewhere in this issue), field work was also continued by members of the RPC project (Attema & Van Leusen, 2000) in other parts ofthe Pontine region. The aims of the research reported here were threefold: firstly to make additional observations at sites identified in earlier survey campaigns in the coastal land­scape near the Fogliana lagoon; secondly to in­vestigate the problems and potential of starting a survey in the up- and highlands of the Monti Lepini; and thirdly to continue the development af portable digital field mapping and registrafion tools (Attema et al., 2001) together with Dr Nick Ryan of the University of Kent. The results indi­cate that protohistoric ceramics, though hard to identify in the field, can be consistently mapped even at very low densities; that protohistoric settle­ment along the river valleys within the coastal zone was limited and impermanent; and that sur­vey in the Lepine highlands will be very difficult.