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LA TOMBA DEL GUERRIERO AL PARCO DELLA BURCINA

In March of 1959, on Burcina hill, a stone structure was unearthed that, according to some studies, had to be an inhumation burial nucleus dating from around 450 B.C.

The pit was lined with dry cobblestones and covered by a mound of stones, at whose interior bone fragments, a leather headdress with metal parts, a kind of belt with bronze loops, and a trousseau were found.

Other findings recovered at the site, preserved today in the Museum of the Territory of Biella, return a multifaceted image of the deceased: an axe, a suspension chain from a cauldron, a beak jug, a fragment of a spear cusp.

The deceased in the tomb appears to have been an elite figure in his community because of his role as a warrior.

Since the funeral rite and grave goods hark back to the Transalpine Celtic world, the Burcina deceased would seem to belong to those Gallic warrior groups that crossed the Alps before the invasion of the 4th century BC.

Indirizzo 
Parco della Burcina
13814 Pollone BI
Italy