Tumulo Etrusco del Molinello (Asciano)

The Tumulo Etrusco del Molinello, near Asciano, is a chamber tomb cut into the living travertine, its entrance facing southeast. A long descending dromos, nearly ten metres, leads down to the burial chamber, its drystone walls built of roughly squared travertine blocks, a technique typical of Etruscan funerary architecture. These walls have suffered; the eastern side was disrupted by the later construction of another tomb, the western wall leans inward, partly cannibalised by a neighbour. The floor of the passage was levelled with reddish clay, a pragmatic fill for gaps in the bedrock. The doorway is a neat piece of stonework: two monolithic uprights set into rock-cut sockets, and a single travertine threshold block, raised clear of the floor. One jamb still bears a central groove, perhaps for a now-vanished door. This is a tomb that has been jostled by later burials, its fabric reused and rearranged, but the precision of its original cut remains evident.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.