In October 2012, a pre-Roman necropolis was identified by GIS analysis of air photographs taken between 2007 and 2011. This season an excavation area of about 16 × 17 m was opened.
The excavation uncovered 62 tombs (plus another eight, which were not excavated as they were right at the trench edge). Of these, 19 were of adults (young, mature and old, falling between the ages of 17/20 up to over 45/50 years), only one adolescent (13-14) and 42 newborn and infants ranging between the final weeks of gestation (foetus) to six years of age. Among the adults, 10 were identified as males, 8 as females and only one burial (no. 62) has yet to be analysed.

A number of adult burials date to between the end of the 7th and the early 6th centuries B.C. These were nine very large graves; the male burials denoted by iron daggers and lances and, in two cases an iron razor (tombs 17 and 29). Personal ornaments were present in the form of one or two iron fibulae. The female burials contained more artefacts of personal ornament, with fibulae, glass-paste and bone beads, and, in one case (tomb 65), a belt with two bronze plaques decorated with “bullet-shaped” studs. A recurring element was the impasto spindle whorl (present in all the attested cases, that is tombs 13, 44. 65 and 67).

Tomb 62, probably that of a female individual, with a niche to the right of the feet, was the only one with an impasto bucchero-type carenated bowl placed by the feet. The burial has been given a preliminary date of between the late second half of the 6th century and the early 5th century B.C.

The burial typology for the adult individuals poses some questions regarding dating at present. In fact, nine tombs (nos. 3-4, 11, 25, 30, 42, 55, 61 and 66), were characterised by very deep graves, cut into the clay bedrock to form a bench. In the middle of the wall, above the grave floor to the right of the deceased there was a niche containing an ovoid impasto jar. The deposition usually occupied the bench and, from a first analysis in almost all cases, the body was placed in an empty space, probably closed by wooden planks, remains of which were visible in some cases.

The rest of the excavated tombs contained the depositions of perinatal individuals (last six weeks of gestation to a few weeks of life) and infants (one and a half years to six years of age).