In the spring of 2006, in the locality of Baggiovara at Modena, Stradello Buracchione, several Iron Age structures were excavated. These had been discovered by chance during work for the construction of a hotel complex. The Iron Age ground level in the N-E sector had been largely obliterated by agricultural work: in fact already below the plough soil the structures only appeared in negative. The rest of the lot presented evidence of a substantial occupation of Roman and late antique date which had further cut into the pre-Roman settlement.

The site was characterised by the presence of holes of varying dimensions. The most interesting structure was a large whole on a N-S alignment, which was slightly off line towards the N-E/S-W. It had a sub-rectangular plan with rounded corners and was circa 10 m long, circa 3.5 m wide and a maximum depth of circa 1 m.
The base fill, which levelled a channel like depression, was constituted by a yellowish sandy silt deposit formed as a result of the stagnation of waters probably caused by flooding. The subsequent fills were characterised by an alternation of blackish deposits containing anthropological and organic material, which were spread across the entire hole, and dumps of baked-clay including many structural fragments with one smoothed face. The characteristics of the fills, the presence of structural elements of baked-clay, numerous cobbles and large quantities of ceramic material (linked above all to domestic life, as attested by numerous reels and loom weights), suggest that a kiln or hut, in theory present nearby, was dismantled. Therefore, the large hole may have originated as a clay pit and was later used as a large rubbish pit.

Also to be noted is the presence of a large quantity of impasto pottery, fragments of bucchero-like pottery and numerous bronze objects, including fibulae and needles.
A first analysis of the materials provided a date of between the end of the 7th and mid 6th century B.C.