The middle Bronze Age settlement is situated on an ancient river terrace on the left bank of the Afra torrent, a tributary of the Tiber, on the slopes of Poggio Miolo, close to an Apennine pass leading into the Marche.

The stratigraphic sequence revealed the existence of one anthropological level relating to a single occupation phase. A vast area was examined revealing a surface with various types of structures, relating to habitations, fixed into the paleo-riverbed of the Afra. These included post holes, different types of structures for combustion such as ovens and hearths, and middens).

During the 2001 campaign a pottery container, buried up to the rim, was found in a pit dug in the sterile base sediment, in an area poor in finds but characterized by the presence of a large quantity of baked earth. The combustion structures (a small oven for food and a hearth) were of particular interest. Both were situated inside the same dwelling and were connected to each other. The oven, excavated in 2003-2004, preserved the red baked-earth floor of sub-circular shape, on the south side of which a projecting wall was still visible which suggested that originally the structure had been covered by a plastered vault. Near the patch of baked-earth two pits of different size and depth were uncovered. These were in phase with the oven. The hearth, discovered in 2005 to the east of the oven, comprised large flat stones forming a flat circular surface with a slight depression in the centre.

The materials recovered during the 2006 excavation, as for previous years, mainly consisted of pottery in a bad state of preservation due to the acidic soil. Of particular interest was the find of a fragment with Apennine type decoration which joined to a carenated bowl found in 2005. Also of interest was an amber bead, of particular importance as this element of considerable value was found in a context which appeared, on the basis of the archaeological evidence, lacking in similar elements. This find throws new light on social and economic aspects of the community of Gorgo del Ciliegio: no longer poor herders dependent on local resources, but a social group owning prestigious goods and well integrated into the trading network of the period.