Contribution Of Archaeology To Medieval And Modern Sardinia 301
Figure 11.12 Hypothetical reconstruction of the village cemetery of Geridu, around the
church of Sant’Andrea. Reconstruction by Marco Milanese, drawing by
Angèlique Coltè.
ships were found in 1999, dated to the first decades of the fifth century AD,
when they were sunk by the possible incursion of the Vandals.98 During the
same excavation, another wreck of a boat, dated to the tenth century thanks to
its glazed Forum Ware produced in Lazio, testifies to direct trade with Rome.99
Also in the south of the island, Donatella Salvi, who has worked extensively
on underwater excavations since the 1980s, shared news about medieval and
post-medieval underwater wrecks. A few in particular deserve attention: an
Aragonese ship sunk in front of the island of Cavoli100 and another in front
of the Torre Murtas,101 attributed by Salvi to a period immediately after the
unification of Italy in 1861. This date has been pinned down more precisely
to shortly after 1912–1913, through the presence of celebratory dishes for the
conquest of Libya.102
98 D’Oriano (2002).
99 Milanese et al. (2005); Milanese (2010).
100 Salvi (1990); Martin-Bueno and Amare Tafalla (1991); Salvi (2005).
101 Salvi (1990), Salvi (1999).
102 Milanese (1997).