Cozzo Collura in Solarino
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Cozzo Collura is a large rural locality, located a short distance from the current inhabited center of Solarino, inside which there is an archaeological area where artifacts dating back to the 4th - 3rd century BC have been found. and to the 2nd - 4th century AD.
In particular, the excavation campaigns have brought to light some bell-shaped tombs dating back to the 4th - 3rd century BC. and other more recent material, a skeleton and two coins of Constantine from the 4th century. The head of a clay statuette of the "Demeter and Kore" type and fragments of black and achromatic painted ceramics attributable to the 4th and 3rd century BC were also found, as well as finds attributable to the Roman period and the Middle Ages, such as fragments of jars, a ceramic basin, four buckles and an iron knife point.
In the area there is also an ancient farmhouse dating back to the sixteenth century, first place of residence of the feudal lords Platamone, and then of the Requesens, which constitutes an important example of historic rural architecture in the Syracuse countryside.
