Inhabited area of Piana of Stigliano

Along the Provincial Road Braccianese Claudia direction Bracciano, shortly after the area Grottini, taking a road on the right we come to the question from the town of Etruscan Piana di Stigliano. At the Museum of Tolfa are exposed material from the site that was discovered by the Archaeological Group Romano during some surface surveys.

The area of the town, as a result of deep plowing appeared strewn with fragments of pottery and building dating back to the seventh-sixth century. B.C. As a result of this discovery were carried out on several occasions Systematic collections of artifacts until you get to recent acquisitions.

The plateau where the settlement is between the valley of the river Mignone and that the ditch Slow part of a larger area affected by the presence of numerous and important Etruscan.

This is an area particularly suitable for the cultivation of wheat, as still nowadays can be observed. The settlement was organized in at least two zones spaced apart from each other, inside of which the housing does not appear particularly spaced from each other. Unfortunately plowing undermined the foundation structures and when you can not rebuild any plan. However, the thickening of materials, in both areas, allow to locate the different households. The town occupied a total of about four acres, dimension suited to the settlements which had formed part of the main necropolis of the Tolfa Hills. The discovery of antefixes suggests that there were mansions of a certain level, the homes of those who were buried in tombs and monuments.

The necropolis refers to this town was located on a tuff cliff not far away, in places where Grottini have been identified in the course of time various chamber tombs.

The ceramics class is better attested than mixing red household, attributable to vessels for storage, cooking and consumption of food. Among the forms presented include: pots, bowls, basins. To be observed with particular attention are the fragments of cookers for cooking food. Mention should also be the fragments of “pithoi”, used as containers for foodstuffs, one of which is decorated with the representation of Bellerophon cylinder which faces the chimera.