Castellucciana necropolis and early Christian rock settlement of Gelosino
Castellucciana necropolis and early Christian rock settlement
Several cave tombs along the left bank of the stream that runs along the quarry floor; presumably paleochristian hypogea, with four tombs side by side in a cave; single arcosoles in the open air with an inclined deposition plane; pit tombs and traces of wall structures (late agricultural settlement) on the plane of the right bank.
Area of archaeological interest, art. 142 letter m) Legislative Decree 42/04
(Text source: survey form no.426 Landscape Plan of the Province of Syracuse - Archaeological Heritage)
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