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Multi-periodSite Name: Cerveteri Necropoli della Banditaceia Alternative Name: Banditaccia NecropolisCountry: Italy
NOTE: This site is 0.315 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Lazio/Roma Type: Rock Cut Tomb
Nearest Town: Rome Nearest Village: Cerveteri
Latitude: 42.006300N Longitude: 12.100700E
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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 |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Etruscan tombs north of Rome. The necropolis lies in a bed of Volcanic Tuffa out of which the tombs were cut between the 8th and 5th Century BC. The earliest tombs resembled mills, while the later resemble tumuli or mushrooms. The style is somewhat oriental and probably harkens back to the Asia Minor origins of the Etruscans. The site has hundreds of tombs, of which at least 5 are rather large, stretched out over about 1 Km towards the town.
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