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Multi-periodSite Name: Poggio Civitate Alternative Name: Piano del TesoroCountry: Italy
NOTE: This site is 51.346 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Toscana Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Siena Nearest Village: Murlo
Latitude: 43.161000N Longitude: 11.388000E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Ancient Settlement in Toscana.
An Etruscans settlement of large buildings and a multi-craft workshop in the 7th C BCE. After a large fire, the site was leveled and rebuilt in the 6th C BCE as multi winged complex with a central courtyard.
"Speculation as to its function has lead to such theories as a political meeting hall, a religious sanctuary, a palazzo of some type and even an Etruscan version of an agora. Currently, the excavators believe that the building combined the functions of the disparate structures of the earlier phase into a single edifice."
Currently the site of archaeological investigations as part of the Poggio Civitate Excavation Project, University Of Massachusetts Amherst .
Note: Infanticide in paradise? Neo-natal remains lead to speculation - infants in the trash, or burials displaced?
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