The study of metal artefacts from the site of Vetricella in Scarlino can offer significant insight on aspects of day-to-day life as well as past technological practices. The presence of artefacts related to the riding tackle is significant, mostly horse-shoes and horseshoeing nails, but also prick spurs and harness gear. A variety of tools is associated with manual work or daily subsistence practices, such as leather, bone and woodwork, smithing and textile-working.
Alexander Agostini, research grant assignee in the nEU-Med project, will show us the preliminary results of his study of the over 1.500 metal finds recorded from the early Medieval site of Vetricella.