Contributo alla conoscenza del popolamento antico nella Valle del Reno attraverso lo studio dei materiali del sito del Sassatello (Marzabotto), con nota di Luisa Mazzeo Saracino.

The rural building of Sassatello (Marzabotto) is included in a Roman-period settlement system in the Reno Valley as a peripheral facility, placed along an important Transappenninic route. The building had both residential and productive functions. The earliest pottery found in its excavation dates it between the late second and early rst century BC. Later on, around the middle of the rst century BC, the original structure was expanded into a large farmhouse, which constitutes the main phase in the ancient exploitation of the site, and which lived on, although going through several different uses, until the late antique period. Before the villa was erected, the site was occasionally frequented during the Villanovan period, as suggested by a sporadic nd, a lunate razor datable to the mid-eighth century BC, whereas the latest traces of use of the area are later than AD 700.