Rome Transformed: fieldwork in south-east Rome

Previous reports (Haynes et al., 2020; 2021) have summarised progress on ROMETRANS, the ERC-funded research project 'Rome Transformed: interdisciplinary analysis of political, military, and religious regenerations of the city's forgotten quarter C1-C8 CE' (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/835271). The period 2021-22, which falls half-way through the current five-year project, has been of the utmost importance to the overall fieldwork programme. To meet ROMETRANS's internal deadline for primary data capture (May 2022) while recovering time lost as a result of COVID restrictions required a tremendous effort from team members and our many generous collaborators, stakeholders and facilitators. ROMETRANS work in Rome takes four main forms: structural analysis, geophysical survey, a programme of borehole drilling and ongoing archival analysis. Data derived has been, or is in the process of being, documented in the project's internal interim reports, and where applicable fed into the RT 3D, a system developed by the ROMETRANS team at the University of Florence by Margherita Azzari and colleagues. RT 3D is designed to enable the project team to generate Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) for buried land surfaces of each major transformation phase examined by the project.