Golasecca

An Iron Age culture whose type site is a cemetery in Lombardy, Italy. Occupied from the 9th century BC to the 3rd century BC, it is an urnfield cemetery with some burials accompanied by wheeled vehicles. Some contain rich grave goods of metal, showing connections both with the Hallstatt Iron Age culture of central Europe and with the Etruscans in central Italy.

Iron Age culture of Lombardy, northwest Italy, from the 9th century to the 1st century bc. A few defended hilltop settlements are known, but the culture is known mainly from its cemeteries of inumed cremations, containing tens, hundreds or sometimes, as at the type site, thousands of burials. Grave goods are generally modest, but a number of outstandingly rich graves, interpreted as chieftains’ burials, are known. These include wagon and chariot burials and contain rich grave goods of metal, showing connections both with the Hallstatt Iron Age culture of central Europe and with the Etruscans in central Italy.