A Messapian burial in an “a cassa” tomb of leccese stone slabs with a covering of carparo stone slabs was excavated. It contained, in primary deposition, a male adult in a supine position with related grave goods (Messapian bell-krater decorated with vegetal motifs, Apuilian Red-figure lekythos, plain ware single-handled jug). By the feet was another adult, in reduction, with grave goods (black glaze lekythos with reticulate decoration, two-handled plain ware jug with bi-lobe mouth, small two-handled plain ware jug, small single-handled plain ware jug, small terracotta ball, a stone bead, a bone comb and sheep/goat astragalae ). Another secondary deposition with the remains of an adult and three infants/juveniles and related grave goods (head of a terracotta female statuette, black glaze lekythos, black glaze lekythos with reticulate decoration, plain ware jug, small plain ware jug, sheep/goat astragalae and fragments of iron fibulae) was found below the cranium of the primary deposition, in a small cavity cut into the sterile clay.

Outside the tomb there was a densely packed ossuary, containing the remains of three adults (two male and one female), a juvenile and an infant. They were carefully buried below a covering and laying on a stratum of broken vases and tiles, with a only a small tomb group which included silver diobolus from Taranto. Three bones belonging to these individuals were found inside the tomb, demonstrating the relationship between the burial and the ossuary.

The topographical position of the tomb is of particular interest. It was inserted into a triangular space delimited, on one side, by the beaten floor of a courtyard, on the other two sides by the walls of a Messapian house. The tomb abutted the house. The family tomb is incorporated within the domestic space. The complex dates to the period 330-265 B.C.