The National Archaeological Museum of Pontecagnano is dedicated and named after the ‘Etruscans of the Frontier’ and collects finds from the Villanovan and Etruscan-Campan centre of Pontecagnano. A heritage of inestimable value, whose most substantial nucleus is represented by the finds coming from the more than 9000 burials excavated in the necropolis of Pontecagnano area in the last fifty years.
The visit follows a chronological order of the exhibition, with sections dedicated to the illustration of the different eras, from the Eneolithic period to the Roman Age, offering visitors moments of in-depth study of the city and its urban development, the necropolis, the sanctuaries, the craft productions. The section dedicated to the aristocracy of the Orientalizing period (end of the 8th – end of the 7th century B.C.), to which some burials can be referred, which, for the composition and the quality of the funerary equipment, have been defined ‘princely’.
