Necropolis of Fossa Quadara in Licodia Eubea
The Necropolis of Fossa Quadara in Licodia Eubea is located on a plateau overlooking, on its north side, the artificial lake of Licodia Eubea.
This area was already frequented in prehistoric times, as evidenced by the abundant stone material found. The inhabited nucleus must have been located upstream of one of the hills that flank the river while on a flat rise on the right bank of the Dirillo river, which engages in the artificial lake, there is the Necropolis of Fossa Quadrata characterized by a large number of burials of Late Roman age.
These are mostly tombs with a single burial, the typology of which is constant and typical of the late Roman Sicilian burial grounds in the Hyblaean hinterland.
Two remains have been found in the necropolis of considerable value: a lamp with a monogrammatic cross, of African import from the end of the 4th century AD. C. which certifies the relations between Africa and Sicily well documented in the 3rd - 5th centuries AD, and two later acromic jugs with grooves.
The clay pots are now preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Ragusa.
