The excavation in via Gabriele brought to light two new elements of great interest regarding the Roman centre. The first element is a stretch of basalt paving, part of a decumanus running parallel to the main one in via Musei, one of the main roads of Brixia and to date undocumented. The second element is the confirmation of the existence of important buildings, perhaps public, provided with efficient water supply and sewer system, in the block situated between the newly discovered decumanus and those believed to exist to the south along the via Cattaneo.
In the main phase of the Roman settlement (Roman phase 1, 1st century A.D.) the road was paved, its course delimited by buildings with basements and underground spaces which cover an area of circa 100m2 in the southern zone (extending as far as the Roman structures found in 1977 in Piazzetta Legnano). The road, orientated on a west-east alignment, linked the two main sectors of the ancient city by crossing the forum. The construction of this road is contemporary with the construction of the cuniculus situated below it, a structure which it is difficult to interpret due to the presence of two votive niches containing charcoal, small bones and a small bronze coin.
Subsequently the buildings were restructured several times, remaining within the original layout (Roman phase 2, 3rd century A.D.) with the reuse of building materials (such as suspensurae and marble elements). In the late Roman period (late Roman phases 1-2, 4th to 5th century A.D.) the underground rooms were partially abandoned and filled with rubble, the road was covered with dumped material and the area occupied by new buildings. There is an alternation of occupation levels represented by insubstantial beaten earth floors, accumulations of rubbish and colluvial deposits caused by temporary abandonment. (Filli Rossi, Fausto Simonetti)