The e excavation covered a total area of about 2,890 m2, digging down to an average depth of 8 m below ground level, exposing evidence of prehistoric, Villanovan and Roman occupation.
The dating of the Neolithic phases was difficult and it was not possible to attribute a precise cultural facies as only a few fragments of pottery were found during the cleaning of the paleo-surface, and there were no settlement structures from this period. A number of characteristics, such as the incised fingernail-impressed decoration on the body and below the handles of the fragments, seemed comparable to late elements of the Adriatic Ceramica Impressa culture.

As regards the Villanovan evidence, part of a substantial defensive system was uncovered, inside which were several settlement structures and associated features (storage pits, cisterns?), datable to the final phase of the Villanovan III and the Villanovan IV periods (end of the 7th-6th century B.C.). This dating overlaps with the latest date from the C14 dating undertaken on bone samples from three of the twenty-one inhumation burials, human and animal, found in the northern sector of the excavation, which provided a calibrated age of between 2.445 and 2440 ± 50 b.p. (670-600 a.C.).
Over 79 m of the outermost structure delimiting the settlement was explored. It followed a slightly curved north-south alignment and comprised a palisade made up of a framework of central supporting posts, supported by containing and reinforcing elements on two sides. The post-holes were visible inside a trench 2.30 m wide at the top and 1.15 m deep. A second drainage channel ran along the inside of the palisade, 2.70 m wide, and a maximum of 1.40 m deep. The channel was excavated for 70 cm heading north. A third ditch, parallel to the first and about 27 m away to the west, delimited the access to the settlement area. This was identified by two main structures.

The first, on an east-west alignment, was constituted by a quadrangular structure about 9 × 9 m formed by four parallel rows, two on each side, three pairs of quadrangular holes plus a central one. All that remained of the second structure, situated further north and on a north-south alignment, was the central row of square post-holes, flanked on one side by smaller circular holes. Twenty-one tombs discovered in the north sector dated to the archaic (7th century B.C.) phases of the site. These were human and animal inhumations (donkey, horse, bovine), sometimes associated with each other, in earth graves. Most were characterised by some anomaly of the skeleton, such as the amputation of the feet for the humans and the cranium for the animals, the severed parts being subsequently repositioned. Only a few grave goods were found, leech and boat-shaped fibulae associated with spindle whorls in the female graves, simple impasto jars for the male individuals.