By Alessandro Ferrini

In 1888, during excavations for the construction of a military fortification on the summit of the Talamonaccio hill, the remains of the ancient Etruscan city were unearthed. This is what Gamurrini, one of the scholars who began the archaeological investigations, recounts:

“The summit of the Talamonaccio hill was, in Etruscan-Roman times, occupied by a small city which, to the southeast, overlooked the Via Emilia and the mouth of the Osa River, and to the west, the port and the sea inlet. It was enclosed by a double circuit of dry-stone walls, now almost entirely dismantled and covered by earth: the first outer one about a kilometer long, the other inner one at a short distance from it. The houses, frequently built with walls and lime-glazed floors, followed Roman methods and measurements. The city flourished, as inferred from the underlying necropolis, in the third century BC and may have been founded slightly earlier.”
(Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, year 1888)

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