The ancient burial area found at the beginning of the nineties in the alluvial plain in front of today’s town (the distance as the crow flies is 2 km), in the area between Casale and Cave di Pietra, is not only one of the most important archaeological realities of the territory of L’Aquila, but also a cultural evidence of national resonance, thanks to the peculiarities of the burials contained in it and the richness of the objects found inside them: wonderful evidence of material culture of the people who lived in the past in these districts.The return to light of this necropolis took place in a random way, in the summer of 1992, during the removal of the land for the construction of industrial plants. Thus, an initial phase of investigation by the Archaeological Superintendence of Abruzzo to verify the real extent of the discovery, was followed by important excavation campaigns throughout the 1990s (from 1995 to 1999), which allowed the local Superintendence Officer, Dr. Vincenzo D’Ercole, to rediscover one of the most monumental necropolises known to date in the central-southern area of Italy.
