At the moment we have not been able to defi ne the function of the “tra Manciano e Samprugnano” shovels certainly non-generic, due to the consumption features, specifi cally connected to the typical Frattesina’s handicraft, like, perhaps, deer horn handicraft. Here socketed shovels are constantly found in combination with pick-ingots which, unlike the former, are largely found also in northern Adriatic regions. The latter counts many more fi ndings, especially in Frattesina its distribution is almost completely oriented along a directional route which involves southern Veneto, central Adriatic coast and Etruria.
The former, probably coming from padanian LBA socketed axes, counts few specimens wide spread between Lake Garda’s area and Hungary.
Most of the fi ndings, as well as moulds related to both types, come from this site. The “Fondo Paviani”-type shovels, dated to FBA 1, and the “tra Manciano e Samprugnano”-type shovels, of which we can confi rm the FBA 2 dating, were undoubtedly both Frattesina di Fratta Polesine products. The aim of this work is to improve the defi nition of typology, production centres and distribution of socketed shovels. SUMMARY - ABOUT FBA SOCKETED SHOVEL TYPOLOGY - Copper alloy socketed shovels, often discovered in FBA hoards of central and nothern Italy, have been subject of many debates dedicated to the matter of metal production and circulation about the end of the II millennium B.
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