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Around the XVIII century B.C., during the Bronze Age, the promontory delimited by the bays of Saturo (North) and Porto Perone (South) was home to a village made up of oval or circular huts, with dry stone side walls and floors made with layers of clay hardened by fire, on which numerous fragments of vases were arranged flatways; the roof had to be made of branches and reeds. After its abandonment, the promontory hosted a new village in the XIII century B.C. The huts of this period were supported by wooden poles; they had a roughly circular plan, walls made of intertwined branches and plastered with raw earth, a roof made of reeds or branches, a wooden door and a kneaded clay floor.
The village was defended by a massive wall, now preserved to a height of about 3 metres, built with dry stone technique or bonded with clay. The wall was approximately 5 meters wide at its base that was made up of large blocks and tapering towards the top with a width of 3.50 meters. The fortification was delimited by a moat, which was in turn defended by a wall on its outer side
The Bronze Age village had strong commercial ties with the contemporary Greek world (dominated by the Mycenaean civilisation), as attested by the numerous fragments of Mycenaean pottery. The site was abandoned no later than the X century B.C. and, according to the most recent studies, it was repopulated in the Iron Age, around the VIII century B.C.
Indirizzo: Viale Saturo, 74020 Leporano TA
Telefono: 340 9247013
Email: parcosaturo@libero.it
