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Social Sciences - History / Piano di gestione | | Italian term or phrase: cavamonti | A Napoli viene attribuito ai fondatori greci un acquedotto sotterraneo che dalle pendici del Vesuvio (all’epoca solo verde montagna) entrava in città nei pressi dell’attuale Porta Capuana.
Il rapporto diretto dei cittadini con il sottosuolo dispensatore di acqua indusse a trasformare il territorio sotterraneo in cava urbana, e la privilegiata categoria dei “pozzari” fece da guida ai cavamonti.
Poco distanti e paralleli a quello dell’acqua furono perforati altri pozzi nelle cui pareti si scavò in orizzontale, e gli argani tirarono su le pietre necessarie per costruire o sopraelevare.
This is a proposal of a management plan regarding Naples. The section above is taken from the detailed history sections and ultimately refers to the protection and conservation of historical sites. I am a little stuck with the term "cavamonti" and am unable to find many references for this term. Can anyone help? |
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His parties of local diggers, called the “cavamonti”,
burrowed through walls decorated with paintings,
hacked through mosaics, cut through doors, all to
find valuable objects.
http://www.kafs.co.uk/pdf/mag-10-pt1.pdf
These operations, which were often extremely dangerous, were carried out by diggers known as cavamonti (drilling tools for wells and quarries, used during the first archaeological digs by the Bourbon) under the rigid control of a group of military engineers coordinated by de Alcubierre.
http://www.pompeiviva.it/pv/en/tecnichescavoerestauro_174817...
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Explanation:
His parties of local diggers, called the “cavamonti”,
burrowed through walls decorated with paintings,
hacked through mosaics, cut through doors, all to
find valuable objects.
http://www.kafs.co.uk/pdf/mag-10-pt1.pdf
These operations, which were often extremely dangerous, were carried out by diggers known as cavamonti (drilling tools for wells and quarries, used during the first archaeological digs by the Bourbon) under the rigid control of a group of military engineers coordinated by de Alcubierre.
http://www.pompeiviva.it/pv/en/tecnichescavoerestauro_174817...
| Kate Chaffer
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