Archaeological area of ​​Poggio Sommavilla

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The archaeological area of Poggio Sommavilla is an archaeological site located in Poggio Sommavilla, a Frazione of the Comune of Collevecchio in the Tiber valley.

In the archaeological area of Poggio Sommavilla, archaeological finds from prehistory, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age have been found on the Tiber river terraces. Of greater consistency is the archaic period settlement whose name is not known, according to the studies of the data collected it had life and development at least from the prehistoric age up to the Hellenistic age, probably up to the time of its destruction by of the Roman republican army led by the consular tribune Marcus Furius Camillus of Veii, Capena and Falerii Veteres, cities with which it had intense continuity of relations throughout its cultural history.

The morphological entity of the river terrace of Poggio Sommavilla-Grappignano at the confluence of the Tiber and the Aia torrent in front of the Treja (Paleotevere), geologically made up of gravelly-sandy deposits, undoubtedly constitutes the area that boasts the greatest density and the most relevant deposits of the Tiber valley south of the confluence with the...