Archaeological remains were uncovered during work on the construction of a rectory behind the church of S. Antonio, on the northern edge of Aliano town centre. As well as a cremation burial dating to the beginning of the 3rd century B.C. and middens containing archaic and classical material, the excavation in the north-eastern zone of the building site uncovered the collapse of a building destroyed by fire. Inside this elongated rectangular structure were four limestone bases, probably the supports for a wooden roof with a tile covering and architectural terracottas, many fragments of which were found in the collapse and in secondary deposition. Worthy of note were several fragments of terracotta facing slabs with relief decoration, complete examples of metopes with mesomphalos pateras and, below the collapse, several fragments of pottery, terracottas and numerous bronze bosses, probably part of the cladding on a wooden door.

Outside the building a patch of opus spicatum pavement was found; the pavement must have terminated in correspondence with a terrace wall in polygonal blocks which held up the bank. It is only possible to advance hypotheses regarding the identification of the structure: it may have been a portico with a sidewalk on the west side, or it could have been a two storey residential building, of which the lower floor was used for storage or stabling for animals. On the basis of the materials recovered the structure can probably be dated to the second half of the 2nd century B.C.