A rescue excavation on an area destined to house an industrial installation continued. On the slopes of the hills overlooking the site to the south a valley of prehistoric date was identified. Cut by water into the volcanic layers, it was on a south-east/north-west alignment, its floor and sides being steeply sloped.

Above these levels were two Roman burials. The valley was filled both by alluvial layers and deposits from the various Flegrean eruptions, the last of which dated to circa 1800 B.C. Above this eruptive layer another level was excavated made up of manmade dumps dating to a period between the end of the early Bronze Age (Palma Campana “facies”) and the beginning of the mid Bronze Age (“Apennine”). The dumps were constituted by dark organic terrain mixed with numerous fragments of charcoal and large and small animal bones, and abundant impasto pottery. The pottery forms included carenated bowls and cups, some decorated with geometric motifs, either intaglio or excisi, with high pierced ribbon handles, axe-shaped or vertical rod handles with lateral peaks. There were numerous baking dishes, basins, bowls with lug handles with finger impressed cordon, jugs and large jars. The layer also produced two impasto disc-shaped spindle whorls, fragments of lave grindstones and two flint arrow heads. In the top of the layer – a substantial level of ash and pumice – there were several fragments of local painted pottery made at Cumae and of bucchero kantharoi with impressed motifs that were probably in that position due to hill wash. Therefore, around the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C. a settlement existed half way up the slope of the hill overlooking the valley which functioned as a midden.