The mound #7, rediscovered in an area that includes at least another hundred burial mounds, between the coasts of Pescoluse and Torre Pali, is an important archaeological discovery. It looks like a pile of stones on an area of 200 square meters in a trapezoidal plan. On the east side is a stone cist of a rectangular form that, in the moment of discovery, showed three vessels with incineration. A thick layer of ground separated these three burials from at least 50 other entombed individuals. In the area overlooking the stone cist, burned stones were found, all referable to a small altar where fire was ignited for ritual purposes. The monument seems bordered on the south side by a sort of wall consisted of an oblique row of large boulders about 14 m long and interrupted by the road. ...
On the south of Specchia, on the outskirts of the village, in "Verardo", near the "Falcone-Borsellino", Park you can visit an interesting archaeological area, made up of numerous cuts in the rocky outcrops of different characteristics and origins. Four "pit” tombs were found in the area; the excavation was directly carried out in the bedrock outcropping and oriented from east to west. During the excavations, three resulted as previously violated in the modern age, but some findings show that they date back between late antiquity and medieval age. The fourth tomb kept the remains of eight individuals who died just some short intervals from one another as well as a considerable amount of other remains from previous burials. The area is now part of ...