The site is situated on the edge of an extensive plateau which skirts the left side of the river Volturno. Clear traces of Roman centuriation of Republican date are still preserved in the layout of the agricultural plots on the plateau. The area investigated was chosen on the basis of the evidence which emerged from a surface survey, in particular pottery and tile fragments and residues of building materials, even found accumulated at the side of the cultivated area. Subsequently, a geophysical survey undertaken over the area revealed the presence of a number of walls, heavily damaged by agricultural activity, as were the burials found during the excavation.

A first excavation trench was marked out, 10 × 10 m trench 1, square c. The surface layer produced further finds of Roman, late antique and early medieval date. Given the abundance of Roman materials, the compatibility of the construction technique and the stratigraphic level, it may be suggested that the first construction on the site occurred in the Roman period. The site may have been continuously occupied, or was reoccupied after a brief interruption. In fact, walls were built in a different technique on the ruins of the first structures. This late building phase also presented the remains of floors in beaten lime and opus signinum, with a make up constituted by a loose layer of small cobbles.

Thus the original structures were readapted to new requirements, some being reused with very different functions and divided into smaller rooms. In some cases these appear to be small shops or workshops for craft working activities. The evidence described above dates this second construction phase to the end of the late antique-early medieval period.

In a second phase, probably after a period of abandonment, was subject to a new use: a small necropolis was created, testified to by various burials found next to walls. These for the most part were ‘tombe a cassa’, in most cases uncoverded.
The tombs generally contained more than one individual only one of whom, probably the last user, fully articulated. Another type of funerary deposit is represented by the ossuary. The habit of putting tombs next to ancient buildings, like farms of the Roman period, is often accompanied by the construction of ecclesiae baptisimales against which the cemetery is created. The almost total absence of grave goods suggests that the users of the necropolis were a small community with modest means and low social status.