The
small church of S. Liberato, hosts the Archaeological Museum that exhibits
the finds from the research in the proto historic settlements of the
territory.
Revealed are the testimonies from the dwellings of Frattesina, a settlement
dated between the XIIth and the IXth centuries B.C. (perhaps the start
of the VIIIth century B.C.) during the final phase of the Bronze Age
("protovillanoviana" culture) and the beginning of the Iron age.
This phase is characterized by numerous craftsmanship activity partly
connected to raw materials of Oriental and North European origin.
The related testimonies of metal workmanship are significant; Frattesina
is the site amongst which the Italian Bronze Age has returned most matrixes
for fusion, many of which are in this museum. Also here is exhibited
one of the three smelter repositories (deteriorated bronze objects intended
for recycling), in which appear fibulas (pins), knives, buttons, fragments
of pani, of bronze and numerous shovels con immanicatura a canon.
These ornaments and utensils were made almost exclusively in bronze
but there are also objects in gold such as gold leaf (perhaps part of
a disk) and fragments of ribbon. Other handcrafted activity is the workmanship
of the glass, ivory and amber.
The glass was of local production but the birth of this activity in
this land is probably due to the presence in the ancient delta of dealers,
artisans and deriving prospectors from the Oriental Mediterranean (e.g.
Cyprus).
The amber, brought in vases of different shapes, includes the so-called
"Tirinto," type that came from the Baltic coasts and arrived at the
artisan centre of Frattesina through Oriental Alps passes and the valleys
of the Adige, to be put into in a commercial network involving peninsular
Italy, Sicily, the Egeo and the coasts of the eastern Mediterranean.
Further testimony of the complex net of relations that makes Frattesina
a real "port of trade" is elephant ivory, of which pieces in phase of
workmanship have been recovered together with finished products above
all combs, decorated with engravings. For what regards funeral rites
there are urns deriving from one of the two necropolis of Frattesina:
that of Narde.
The custom of cremating the dead becomes almost exclusive right in the
final part of the Bronze Age. The ashes were collected in terracotta
vases, generally of bi-conic shape.
Personal objects like simple arched fibulas, pearls in glassy pasta
for the women and razors and arched fibulas for the men accompanied
the dead.
The
small church of S. Liberato, hosts the Archaeological Museum that exhibits
the finds from the research in the proto historic settlements of the
territory. 
This phase is characterized by numerous craftsmanship activity partly
connected to raw materials of Oriental and North European origin. 
Further testimony of the complex net of relations that makes Frattesina
a real "port of trade" is elephant ivory, of which pieces in phase of
workmanship have been recovered together with finished products above
all combs, decorated with engravings. For what regards funeral rites
there are urns deriving from one of the two necropolis of Frattesina:
that of Narde. 
