The Antiquarium was inaugurated in 1986 as a result of the increase of the Council’s archaeological collections.

Intended to be a permanent tool for education, knowledge about the territory and scientific research, it provides a diachronic itinerary and a parallel exhibition of archaeological didactics and documents and examples that are related to the archaeology of the territory of the ancient Tolerium (the present area of Colli S. Pietro-Colle d'oro).

The itinerary exhibition starts with a geologic-anthropological section in which there are fossils of animals including ones that have been discovered in the urban area. This is followed by stone relics from the Palaeolithic and the Neolithic Periods, while there are a series of ceramic fragments from the Iron Age from various sites, but also from an animal pen from an Apennine civilization from the Middle Bronze Age. There are other finds from the period between the end of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age from a dig of a group of huts in Coste Vicoi, while there are domestic and votive objects from the period between the IV and IV centuries B.C.; there are also architectural terracotta from the Classical to the late Hellenism Ages.

The history of the territory after Roman-Latin colonisation is marked by significant building activity, documented by the discovery of ceramic, epigraphic and metallic objects. Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages find space with a series of relics from Palaeo-Christian necropolises.

The Middle Ages phase ends with the exhibits of objects from the castles in the territory, including those of Colleferro and Piombinara (XII-XIV centuries), monuments that, together with the complex of S. Nario and Colle Cirifalco, are illustrated by special models.
 

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