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The Coring Survey of Rome's River Valley
The Coring survey has pretty much ruled that out there was not a marsh in early Rome, or at least not an expansive widespread one. In fact we have found evidence of a swamp like feature but it dates to the Neolithic period. This is millennia before the beginnings of sedentary habitation on the site. By the time people were settling the hills of Rome in the late Bronze Age, Rome's river valley was a seasonally inundated floodplain.