The main temple was used as a church from the 10th to 14th century. It was surrounded by a Christian graveyard. This was when the pagan building suffered the most damage, as it was partly used as a source of building material. This reoccupation confirms the presence of a settlement in the vicinity, very probably in one of the casalia that the local settlement system was organised into at the height of the middle ages and which gave rise to territorial division in districts which still characterises the residential distribution of Schiavi today. The settlement was abandoned in the mid 14th century, possibly following a landslide.
Traces of wooden structures, damaged by the burials, were discovered in the left-hand corner of the front of the temple, while mediaeval walls were discovered opposite the building, downhill from the altar of the minor temple.
The ceramic finds range from the mid-13th to the mid-14th century, but earlier use of the area should not be excluded. |
