Il relitto postmedievale di San Nicoletto (Lido di Venezia). Accertamenti archeologici preliminari

The first underwater archeology campaign along the marine side of the island of Lido di Venezia ended in early July 2022, led by the University of Udine and carried out with the Superintendence of Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Municipality of Venice and the Lagoon and the support of the Institute of Nautical Archeology (USA). The ar-chaeological investigations were concentrated in front of the beach of San Nicoletto and concerned the remains of a shipwreck of historical age. The site lies in shallow water, only 4,5 and 6 meters and during the first season it were pos-sible to dig for ten consecutive days, uncovering over nineteen meters of hull to take directly measured some construc-tion details and several pictures for the 3D photogrammetric recording. The shipwreck is what remains of a freighter sailing ship of the end of the XIX AD, according with the artifacts recov-ered and Venetian-made glass products and ceramics, however, the main load was made up of stone blocks.