Located in the eastern periphery of modern Viareggio on the road to Massarosa, the small site at San Rocchino was excavated in a series of campaigns between the mid 1960s and early 1970s. After evidence of occasional use between the Final Bronze Age and the Villanovan period (12th-mid 8th c. BCE), the site was steadily occupied in two phases, the first from the late 8th to mid 5th c. BCE, the second from the late 4th to the 3rd/2nd c. BCE, when it was destroyed by fire. The site sits on the edge of what was once a much larger coastal lagoon (what remains is today's lago di Massaciuccoli), built up on terraced fill starting in the 7th c. BCE. To the Archaic period, in the second half of the 6th c. BCE, can be dated the remains of four wooden huts and associated port infrastructure. The site has produced evidence of far-flung commercial contacts, including South Etruscan bucchero, Nuraghic, Phoenician, Attic, and East Greek ceramics and Aegean transport amphorae. Locally made impasto and bucchero pottery together with Etruscan graffiti on ceramics suggest a primarily Etruscan local presence.
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