The Etruscan road leaving Veii by the ‘Formello’ Gate and running northwards along the eastern side of the Cremera up to the western lip of the Sorbo Crater and down again to cross the Cremera near Ponte San Silvestro has been described in an earlier section (p. 18). In the Roman period the older road was still utilized, though it now crossed the Cremera by a bridge (noted in PBSR, xxix, 1961, p. 62). As it travelled north it served as an easy access for the wealthy villas on either side of it; there are three of these villas on the Terre di Bettona, south of Monte Massaruccio, and one some two kilometres north of Veii was apparently still occupied as late as the sixth century A.D. Nearly all the small sites and farms appear to have been in continuous occupation since Etruscan times, but on the big villa sites, as might be expected, very few Etruscan sherds have survived to show any earlier occupation.