Project's Targets - Wrecks & Cargoes in the Aeolian Archipelago

The sea-beds around the Aeolian Archipelago consititute an extraordinary archaeological goldime: there abohnd wrecks or cargoes - in many cases this latter definition is the most appropriate since no traces of the ship remain. These ships were wrecked in tracts of sea which were very dangerous especially when crossed during a storm (such as the shoals of Capistello in Lipari and Capo Graziano in Filicudi, and the rocks of the Formiche at Panarea). There are also accumulations of materials of various epochs which were dumped in ports that have now disappeared owing to changes in the coastline over the centuries, and various sporadic finds.
Here is the list of the main wrecks of the Aeolian Islands Archipelago:
1. Cibatti-Signorini wreck in Pignataro di Fuori in the bay of Lipari below Monte Rosa: one of the oldest naval cargoes of the Mediterranean, composed of impasto pottery of the Early Bronze Age belonging to the early phase of the Culture of Capo Graziano (beginning of II Millenium B.C.)
2. Wreck near the orck of Dattilo at Panarea: a cargo of black burnished pottery, possibly of Italiote fabrication (that is, from Greek settlement in Southern Italy), of the beginnning of the IV century B.C.
3. Wreck F from Capo Graziano at Filicudi: Italiote amphoras and black burnished pottery probably of Aeolian fabrication. First half of III century B.C.
4. Wreck from the shoal of Capistello, off the south-east coast of Lipari: Italiote amphoras and black burnished Campana A pottery of Neapolitan fabrication, or at any rate Campanian. Beginning of III century B.C.
5. Roghi Wreck from Capo Graziano at Filicudi: the first wreck to be discovered in the Aeolians (1960). Cargo of amphoras of the Dressel I A type, black burnished Campana B pottery of Central Italian fabrication and plain pottery, II century B.C.
6. Alberti wreck from the Formiche of Panarea: a cargo possibly from Campania of amphoras mainly of the Dressel 2/4 type, with the remainder Dressel 43/Cretan 4. Second half of I century A.D.
7. Wreck of late Imperial Roman age from Punta Capazza between Lipari and Vulcano: ignots of tin probably of Spanish provenance, blocks of sulphur of arsenic from Vulcano.
8. Cargo of late meiaeval glazed pottery from the Formiche of Panarea.
9. Filicudi E wreck or Cannons Wreck: Three bronze cannons from Spanish warship probably sunk in an engagement with the French fleet od Admiral Vivonne who came to the aid of Messina which had risen against the Spanish government in the famous revolt of 1675.