It is one of the unknown areas of Etruscan necropoli that rose on a tufaceous height (20 hectares) called "La Civita" also called Tiro by others. The Etruscan ruins here are mainly tunnels, reservoirs and tracts of the defensive belts made of great blocks of tuff. Along the back which descends in a marked slope towards the valley below there are various chamber tombs of the VI cent. B.C. distribuited on more than one level with long, monumental corridors to gain access. The burial areas sometimes have several chambers, where the dead were placed in dug out graves in the floor or in niches positioned in the walls. Nearby towns included Vigna della Piazza, of Valle Muje, Maccarino, Toiena, Le Sane, and Pian dell’Aia.Many graves show double sloping sculptured ceilings reproducing the wooden warp of an Etruscan house where several structural elements are outlined with ribbons and coloured bands.