The site, named as the Castelliere di Rividischia in literary sources, was first identified from surface finds in 1983. The residual humps of the perimeter embankment, visible until the 1960s, were subsequently levelled when the perimeter ditches were filled. Between 1998 and 2000 three excavation campaigns were undertaken on the south-eastern edge of the site. The area investigated coincided with a short stretch of the south (external) bank of a sizable water course, which had been adapted as a defensive ditch, and its fill. A residual stretch (8m) of a smaller ditch, parallel to the latter into which it flowed, was also investigated. The smaller ditch was blocked by pottery fragments of the Late Bronze Age in the lower part of the fill. Many fragments were joining, forming in some cases sizable portions (up to a quarter) of medium to large storage vessels. These were placed on the bottom of the ditch or had become part of the fill. The investigation also partially uncovered the confluence of the two river beds, today buried, which ran along two sides of the site. During the excavation campaigns no traces were found of occupation in the Final Bronze-Early Iron Age although this period is well documented by surface finds. These finds also attest the widespread practice of re-working bronze and include numerous sheets of copper alloy and fragments of bronze weapons, tools and personal ornaments dating to the Recent and Final Bronze Age. (Maurizio Buora)