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<\/figure>\nIn Roman period the Grosseto Maremma area\u00a0had its main center in Rusellae, Etruscan town, that became a Roman colony. The town controlled a larget territory between the Metallifere\u00a0hills, the coast, the Uccellina Mountains, the Ombrone river\u00a0and the\u00a0Amiata Mountain. The large\u00a0Lake Prile, which gradually became\u00a0a swamp and of which some traces remain in the Diaccia Botrona wetland, occupied a good part of today\u2019s Grosseto land and it was used\u00a0for its water resources and as a communication way. Roselle also used the presence of the Ombrone river, partially navigable at the time, the presence of an important communication way\u00a0such as the vetus Aurelia Road, and it controlled the Amiata woods, as we are informed by the Roman historian Livio (XXVIII, 45, 14 ). The town\u00a0was built, so, in a strategic point for communications between the hinterland and the Tyrrhenian coast. In this context the new discovered sites in Alberese, inside the territory managed by the Maremma Park, which\u00a0consist of a Roman sanctuary, in Scoglietto, dedicated to Diana \u00a0Umbronensis and of a manufacturing district built on the river, in Spolverino location.<\/p>\n\n
The sanctuary was built during the Roman development of the area, at the end of the III century BC and it was used until the Christian age (IV century A.D.). An inscription on the marble, found in the site, testifies to the presence of a cult to the ancient Italic goddess protector of hunting, forests and rivers. At the beginning of the II century BC, a small chapel was dedicated to the goddess where the offerings were collected. At the beginning of the I century A.D. in the Scoglietto promontory a temple and a collegial area with 7 rooms were built, and the small chapel was abandoned.<\/p>\n\n
The entire complex went through a period of crisis at the end of the II century A.D., when the area was abandoned and the temple was restored, the temple that, during the IV century A.D., after the Thessalonica edict (380 A.D.), was finally forgotten. A hut was built to its ruins, a witness of a new form of employment until the end of the VI century A.D., when the Scoglietto site was forgotten.<\/p>\n\n
A few kilometers from Scoglietto, on the last part\u00a0of the river Ombrone, the Spolverino\u00a0district is\u00a0an important manufacturing district of the Roman period, specialized in different productions. The proximity to the river allowed the transport by sea to reach Rusellae and the presence of the Aurelia road\u00a0guaranteed the land traffic. The first occupation of the site dates back to the beginning of the I\u00a0century A.D., but at the end of the II\u00a0century A.D., cause\u00a0to the crisis in\u00a0the \u00a0Roman Empire,\u00a0the\u00a0small local shops became large production workshops. The glass workshop was implemented by the build\u00a0of a larger structure with\u00a0circular furnaces (1.40m diameter), a work table\u00a0and a large tempering furnace (4m diameter). The bone and metals workshops\u00a0developped too, in particular lead, giving to the site the appearance of an active manufacturing complex.<\/p>\n\n
All workshops were served by a shared\u00a0kitchen, inside of which there was a place (lararium) consecrated to the protective goddess\u00a0of the home. The complex remained in use until the late V\u00a0century, then a small necropolis was built on its ruins, composed, at the time, of 4 buried. Cause\u00a0the floods of the river Ombrone, the area was converted to\u00a0agricultural territory\u00a0since the first centuries of the\u00a0Middle Age and there are no more buidings\u00a0until the VI\u00a0century A.D.<\/p>\n\n
From 2013 some archaeological researches are in a site in Prima Golena location. The settlement was founded during the Roman Republican period (III-II century B.C.), along the coastline of that period (about 6km from the current one) and it continued to be in use until the end of the V century A.D.<\/p>\n\n
It has a rectangular plan with a number of rooms around an\u00a0atrium. Two open spaces located on the northeastern part of the complex in the direction of the Aurelia vetus road complete the building. The comparison with the Tabula Peuntingeriana and the calculation of the Roman nautical miles take\u00a0to identify the site with the Umbro Flumen Positio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prehistoric Period For several years the Department of Archaeology and Art History, University of Siena, with other universities,is making some researches in the territory of the Maremma Regional Park to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8106,"parent":8104,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8129","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n