Colle Rotondo (Anzio), risultati della campagna di scavo 2011

Colle Rotondo is a Latin nucleated village which lies on an 8-hectare plateau about 45 kilometres south of Rome and 7 km north of the Latin city of Antium. Since 2009 this area has been investigated by the joint research project of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Roma La Sapienza and University of Roma Tre. The site was settled since the Mid Bronze Age, but for the FinalBronze Age - Early Iron Age there is evidence of a complex defen- sive system composed of a ditch and an earthwork reinforced by a framework of wood, which delimits an area of about 8 hectares. Between the end of the 7th and the beginning of the 6th century the settlement had a further inner fortification, which reinforced the military value of the site, but the whole village was aban- doned by the end of the 4th century BC when the Romanization of the area, after the Latin war, led to the dismantling of the previous boundary fortress.