Area of archaeological interest of Contrada Lettuga - Buffone
A2.5 // Rural settlement // Cemetery area.
Groups of houses, spaced apart, made with large isodomic blocks longer than 150 cm; still in 1979 had the door jambs, up to 160 cm high, and the thresholds in situ. Not far from the ruins, some chamber tombs with arcosolium niches and a small sub divo cemetery
Reconnaissance: P. Orsi, October 1913; L. Bernabò Brea, October 1963; L. Lombardo, May 1979
Area of archaeological interest, art. 142 letter m) Legislative Decree 42/04
Bibliographic sources:
ORSI, P., Christian epigraph of Palazzolo Acreide, RAC, VIII, 1931, pp. 297-298.
(Source text of survey form n.684 Landscape Plan of the Province of Syracuse - Archaeological Heritage)
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