Some Background

Poggio Pelliccia is a monumental tomb of the tholos type.

The predecessors of such types of tombs had appeared in the area between the end of IX century and VIII B.C. This was a period which showed a general change of trend in the burial practice and followed what was already an established practice in central-south part of Etruria.

Etruscans moved from cremation practice to burials. Tombs started to appear and some of them have been of great help to discover events, social and political events of the time. The first examples of tombs were made of circles of white stone and covered by a "tumulus" of soil.

Those tombs did uncover real treasuries such as ornaments, precious vases and objects imported from the Eastern Mediterranean basin, together with refined object which were locally produced.