Monte Saraceno di Cercemaggiore
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place
resource
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: N. Purcell Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 05, 2023 07:10 AM
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History
Archaeological excavations on the area of the summit of Monte Saraceno have documented the remains of an imposing, fortified high-altitude settlement which has a second walled area within it.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432963
41.45724, 14.7364108
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Cercemaggiore, Fortificazione sannitica (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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wall (defensive), settlement
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 44 G3 Monte Saraceno di Cercemaggiore
- Cercemaggiore, Fortificazione sannitica
- Di Niro 1993
- Fontana and Bernard 2023
- La fortificazione di Cercemaggiore
- Millemaci 2005
- Oakley 1995 125-27
- Scocca et al. 2015
- Scocca, Valeria. "Cercemaggiore, Saraceno, monte." In FANA, TEMPLA, DELUBRA. CORPUS DEI LUOGHI DI CULTO DELL'ITALIA ANTICA (FTD) - 3, edited by Stefania Capini, Patrizia Curci, Maria Romana Picuti, 78.
- Wikipedia (Italian) Cercemaggiore
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 G3 Monte Saraceno di Cercemaggiore
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Monte Saraceno di Cercemaggiore
N. Purcell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Monte Saraceno di Cercemaggiore: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/432963> [accessed: 15 June 2025]
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