This paper aims at furthering our knowledge about the historical and economic dynamics of quarrying, production, transport and trade of the Berici Hills soft stone in ancient times. To do this, we have examined the published data relating...
moreThis paper aims at furthering our knowledge about the historical and economic dynamics of quarrying, production, transport and trade of the Berici Hills soft stone in ancient times. To do this, we have examined the published data relating to roughed out stone artefacts found in 1982 in the Bacchiglione River (Cervarese Santa Croce, Padua, Italy). Thanks to petrographical analysis on thin sections of stone samples recently taken from them it has been possible to find out that the architectural elements (blocks, columns and capitals) are made of pietra di Costozza and that the finds belonged to a ship sailed from the quarries of the Berici district and wrecked during its way to a unknown city of Northern Italy.
