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| Dovecote |
| Crypt of Chiaserna |
| Ponte Grosso |
| Fortresses of Cantiano |
| San Crescentino |
| Roman Wall at San Rocco |
| Pontericcioli Area 1 |
| Pontericcioli Area 2 |
| Pontericcioli Area 3 |
| Pontericcioli Area 4 |
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Pre-Roman Section Thanks to it inland position sheltered by the Apennine ridge, in the Pre-Roman era, the territory of Cantiano was one of those border areas between the Umbrian and Picene cultures Based on the information available thus far, the data on the human population is extremely limited to sporadic findings of materials which can be attributed to early iron age (900 – 580 a.C.) as well as to the archaic period of the VI centennary. The finds from Piana di S. Rocco and from Col d’Agello were probably part of two disturbed burial sites. All of this seems to indicate that the territory of Cantiano was used more as a transit area than one of settlement along the roadway which, once past the convenient nearby Scheggia pass, communicated with the settlements of the Picenes, Umbrians and Etruscans. The fibulas There are 4 bronze fibulas from S.Rocco:
These is a fragment of Poculum
from Col d’Agello made of handworked
paste; it conserves a piece of the edge and the wall, with a
semicircular handle.
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In
2001, in the course of the works for laying underground
service pipes at the foot of the Tower of Comatrano, Mr.
Mauro Radicchi found a
Bronze
figurine of Hercules holding a bludgeon in his right hand,
from Mt. Catria (second half of the II - beginning of the
I century B.C.)