Season Team

• AIAC_802 - Monterenzio Vecchio - 2006
  The site of Monterenzio Vecchio is situated on the Idice-Sillaro ridge. Numerous occupation phases are attested, the earliest dating to the Recent Bronze Age (XIII century B.C.). There was a large amount of evidence of human occupation from the 5th-3rd century B.C., as attested by the necropolis where 39 tombs were uncovered. Some of the most important evidence from the necropolis was provided by the presence of arms and “La Tène” type _fibulae_ which relate to a settlement of the Boi population situated within a territory settled by Etruscans. Of particular importance was the discovery of a hoard, at the base of the slope, comprising hundreds of small terracotta vases, and above all the remains of a settlement with houses with wooden frameworks associated with floor surfaces and pottery of the Padovan-Etruscan facies (V century B.C.) and probably Umbrian pottery (bucchero, impasto). Its commanding position and situation half way along the route to the Padovan Plain made this a site of great strategic importance, given its proximity to the via Flaminia minor, built in 187 B.C. by the consul _C. Flaminius_ , which linked the Padovan region to the Tuscany, or South Etruria. (MiBAC)