Between 1896 and 1898 Italian excavators exposed a series of tombs here dating from the Iron Age to the Orientalising period. The spectacular finds remained virtually unknown until the 1970s, when renewed interest in Latial protohistory brought about a first reappraisal of the Satrican evidence. By then the Northwest Necropolis had already been converted into vineyards; this study provides an extensive analysis and description of the impressive tomb furniture. the cemetery as a whole documents Satricum's rise and growth in the pre-Archaic period, and illuminates how a modest Iron Age village grew into one of the most powerful cities on the Latial plain.