Carmignano

The archaeological areas and museum

The Archaeological Museum of Artimino
The museum, inaugurated in 1983, occupies the basement of the medicean villa. It contains Neolithic findings and some articrafts from the diggings of the nearby archeological areas, the Etruscan settlements of Artimino and the Boschetti and Montefortini tombs in Comeana.
On display are several Etruscan vases, such as the beautiful bowl dating back to the 4th century bC. bronze, ivory and bone objects, sculptures' fragments, coins and an interesting incense burner of the 7th century bC.

Two rooms of the museum exhibit medieval and renaissance pottery articratfs from the village of Bacchereto.
A rich exemplification of the Bacchereto production is presented, ranging from the middle of the Fourteenth to the second half of the Fifteenth centuries and including high quality earthenware, as well as ceramics of everyday use.

The archaeological areas
1. Artimino, the Medicean "Paggeria", with the rests of a building of the end of IV century b.C. and of a temple of the following century.
2. Artimino, necropolis of Prato di Rosello, near the Medici's properties barrows with tombs of VII-IV centuries b.C. were found.
3. Comeana, barrows of Boschetti and Montefortini.
The big Montefortini barrow preserves two separate rooms of burial. One of this is dated about in the middle of VII century B.C and it has a circular plant (tholos). This room of burial is covered with a false dome and with a central pilaster. It has a long open access corridor,a covered vestibule and "terrace-altar".
The other one has a rectangular plant that is covered by a slabin jutting out false voult. It has a vestibule and an open corridor and it is more recent than the first one (at least fifty years before).
4. Archaeological area of Pietramarina

The barrow of Montefortini