Keller in the Terramara marl-pits of Northern Italy (Plate II.
In Northern Italy it was known even before the advent of the Etruscans, for it has been met with on pottery dating from the terramara civilisation.
As to the actual dimensions of the terramara mounds, it is difficult to procure accurate measurements, for several reasons.
The discovery of this terramara was not made till 1868, but, its contents being readily accessible, the progress of its demolition has been rapid.
With these exceptions, there are no terramara mounds of the Iron Age, and the system is supposed to have flourished in the early Bronze Age and to have fallen completely into desuetude before the commencement of the Iron Age.
The best investigated terramara in the Bologna district is that at Castellaccio, about three-quarters of a mile to the south of Imola.
Here some of them coalesced with Terramara refugees, who had erected a dry terramara on a hill-top beside the river, and to this hill they gave the name of one of their abandoned cities, Palatium, so that it became mons palatinus.
The Terramara-folk fled, some to Etruria, others to Taranto and others again to Rome, where they built a dry terramara on the Palatine Hill.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terramara" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
