Some months after the discovery of seven Lombard burials, during work on a gas pipeline, a group of nine similar tombs came to light, at about 120 m to the north, during a watching brief on the construction of the BreBeMi motorway.

As in the first case, grave goods were absent in the majority of these tombs. There were three exceptions: one with a truncated cone-shaped spindle whorl, another with a drinking vessel “a sacchetto”, a local imitation of the Lombard type, and another with a set of bronze belt ornaments, of the “S. Maria di Zevio” type, but without the sword or scramasax.

The considerations proposed for the first tombs found at Cassano d’Adda along the gas pipeline, as well as for the similar burials discovered at Pozzuolo Martesana on another construction site for the BreBeMi motorway, can therefore also be applied to this find.

Datable to between the end of the 6th and the first half of the 7th century, all of the above mentioned burials relate to small nucleuses of individuals. All were probably of free status, and some who do not appear to have undertaken military service, were middle class and may have either had control of taxation, crossings or river fords, or been land administrators.

For these individuals the bronze belt seems to have become a precise symbol of their role, recognised by the community as a whole, so much so, that they were dressed with the belt when buried.