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Excavation

  • Curanda, cascina Castellaro
  • Curanda Castellaro
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  • Italy
  • Lombardy
  • Province of Bergamo
  • Calcio

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Credits

  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • A small necropolis comprising 20 tombs with cremations came to light at Urago d’Oglio, on the edge of an excavation of Roman remains and early medieval burials. The necropolis was situated almost on the edge of a terrace rising on the left bank of the river Oglio, and was perhaps associated with the settlement which was partially investigated in 1976-77 ( a small trench and surface collection), situated at circa 650m north of the tombs. The tombs date to the end of the mid Bronze – beginning of the late Bronze Age, and have certain characteristics which make them closer in type to the necropoli of western Lombardy (Canegrate-MI; Gambolò-PV), than to those known in the eastern part of the region (Cavriana and Virgilio – MN). (Laura Simone Zopfi)

Director

  • Laura Simone Zopfi - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Lombardia

Team

  • Leonardo De Vanna - Società Lombarda di Archeologia s.r.l. Milano
  • Filli Rossi - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Lombardia
  • Cristina Cattaneo - LABANOF – Laboratorio di Antropologia e Odontologia Forense Università degli Studi di Milano

Research Body

  • Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Lombardia

Funding Body

  • Sig. G. Longhi, proprietario del terreno

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