VALLE CAPPELLANA (Barbarano Romano)

There are two recently restored graves which are more or less coeval (end of VIII - Beginning of VI century B.C.). Due to their strange characteristics this place is of archeological interest. It is about 10 metres from the road that joins Cura di Vetralla and Blera. The bigger of the two coaxial rooms is separated by two fluted columns and an Etruscan-Dorian capital. In the first room there is a small bed built from a large slab of peperino with a sculptured half moon pillow in bas-relief and a chiselled tuff ceiling; in the second room there are two beds on the side of the wall with a wooden ceiling. On the right hand side of the dromos that leads to the burial room there is another small tomb with a collapsed ceiling. The second grave, is similar to the first in that it is levelled out by the intense agricultural activity of the land and that it too has two rooms on the same axis. In the front room apart from the two classical beds against the wall with a ridged roof, there is a chair and a stool with a foot rest. In the rear room, which is smaller than the first, is a longed three sided bench. On the upper level of the grave there are many pit tombs.