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A different situation is encountered in the Santa Perpetua site, which, due to its position, the vast extension of the area of dispersions of materials and the presence of small fragments of marbles and granites, could be thought of as a “countryside villa”.

In the territory of the Lower Cecina Valley, these typical residential and productive sites from the Roman age are mainly concentrated along the coast, as with the San Vincenzino villa in Cecina. They coexist with minor rural villages and hubs, which characterise the Montescudaio landscape in this phase and attest to its vitality until the late Roman period (II-III century BC).

A Roman settlement is also located in the Casalgiustri site, already frequented in the Etruscan period, as evidenced by the presence of “cappuccina” tombs: covered with gabled and bent tiles and accompanied by burial sets consisting mainly of pottery, they testify to the continuity of life in this area, occupied until the threshold of late antiquity.