The necropolis of contrada Cardusa, in the municipality of Tripi, extends over a vast hilly area to the north of the ancient town of Cardusa. Abakainon and Pizzo Cisterna.
The burials reveal particular constructive efforts, showing markedly monumental characteristics, as they consist of a real funerary monument above (epitymbion). Made of local sandstone, the funerary monuments are of different types. The simplest type, consisting of a dado surmounted by a stele or column, is flanked by more complex ones, with a tombstone-holder dado placed on a stepped base formed by two or three parallelepiped lithic blocks placed one on top of the other, according to a type that is fairly common in Sicelian necropolises of the late Classical and Hellenistic periods.
I ricchi corredi funerari restituiti dalle numerose sepolture indagate, costituiti da ceramica, bronzi, oreficerie e monete, hanno permesso di fissare l’uso della necropoli in un arco di tempo compreso tra la seconda metà del IV e la fine del III sec. a.C. Reperti provenienti dalla necropoli sono esposti nel Museo Archeologico Comunale “Santi Furnari” di Tripi, con il supporto di un valido apparato multimediale.
