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Small settlements (as well as necropoli and sanctuaries) grew up alongside the ancient route that led up the mountain from the river Trigno to Schiavi, the real backbone of the area. These were partly followed by the organisation of the mediaeval casalia and the distribution of the modern districts.
The discovery of inscriptions and other materials in Badia, Canale, Cannavina, Casali, Taverna and Colle della Torre itself, confirms this gravitation of populations along the route now covered by the country road to Schiavi.
Popular tradition tells of a "large city", probably located on San Silvestro plain, where important traces from Imperial Roman times have been found, as well as mediaeval finds, when the church of the same name stood there, which is no longer in existence. The area may also have been visited sporadically as far back as Neolithic times (5th millennium B.C.), while the Bronze Age sites seem to be characterised by a preference for higher ground: Monte Pizzuto, Badia, Colle Prezioso (where excavation work was carried out recently, leading to some major scientific results), as well as the slope near the Italic temples, where a necropolis was created in the early Iron Age in a previously frequented area, "living on" until the height of the Roman period. |
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