Political and geographical characteristics of castle distribution in the Tirol - The The ancient site of Monformoso has recently been the subject of a research programme by the Archaeological Group of Vercelli.
From the Middle Ages to the present it traced. From the documentary evidence, summa­rised here, the site development from the Middle Age to the present is traced. This places the site amongst the examples of the neglect an transformation of a rural forti­fied site consequent upon the union of two bordering territories.
The logical sitings for medieval fortified sites in the area are briefly considered an compa­red with the known pattern of classical settlement.
From which the territorial palimpsest of the Monformoso site is hypothesized the inhabi­ted area, once a provincial district capital, has been so changed as to make nearly unreco­gnizable the true extent and form of the village, castle an parish church of St. Andrew: placed completely levelled by later robbing.
The initial and incomplete results of the historical an archaeological survey would suggest Monformoso to be a site of interest for the study of the material culture of a rural forti­fied settlement of the province of Vercelli from the 13th to 19th centuries.