NECROPOLI DI MONSORINO
(GOLASECCA)

To the South of Golasecca, with a beautiful walk in the woods you reach Monsorino. In the necropolis it is evident the importance of the burial cult and the sacred movements. In 1965 were found rounded gates, created with big stones, with collective graves containing some tombs with cinerary urns decorated like northern Italian civilization. Celtics submitted these populations - we know they, surely entered in contact with them because of the graves of the warriors of 6th century B.C. discovered in Sesto Calende. From excavations emerged that the inhabitants of Golasecca did not use a unique method to build graves, but in different ways: in the sand (holes in the sand with stones at the end) - like reservoirs (constituted by little river cobbles situated near the urn on which often there was a crown as cover) - box (in which a slate of gneiss covered entirely the bottom and the walls of the grave) and like a well (great graves constituted in big river stones piled up on the ground).

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