In another area not far from modern Sibari, near Spezzano Albanese, the archaeologists have unearthed dwellings from the Middle Bronze Age alongside objects of Aegean origin.

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The museum's collection comprises more than 6, 300 objects including pre-historic tools, Bronze Age, Roman and Saxon artefacts, maps, textiles, books, paintings and prints, together with objects and ephemera from before Victorian times up to World War II, the 1950s and the present day.

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The Salisbury Hoard, which included more than 500 objects from the Iron Age and Bronze Age, was discovered in 1986 near the city.

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Experts say it is unusual for so many organic objects to survive for this length of time in a grave from the Bronze Age period.

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