This was the fourth excavation campaign in the locality of Ronchetrin at Gazzo Veronese. The areas opened in 2015-2016 were extended to the south (25 × 5 m) and the north (20 × 10 m) in order to obtain further data from the necropolis situated along the via Claudia Augusta (uncovered in 2014-2015). On the edge of the road’s lateral ditch, thirty more cremation burials were identified (in containers made of tiles or sawn amphora placed in pits). Thirty burials were excavated in 2015-2016. The new burials also had well-preserved grave goods, despite the damage caused by agricultural activity, and are datable to between the late 1st century B.C. and the early 2nd century A.D.

This season’s excavations resulted in the following:
1. the identification of the southern edge of the necropolis, where the tombs were arranged in a single row and then widened to the north forming first two parallel rows (as already seen in 2015-2016), and then four –five rows that became irregular;
2. the discovery of two inhumation burials: one was an infant burial inside two imbrices, the other bordered by vertically placed tiles, probably of an 8-11 year old child. Both burials were at a greater depth than the cremations. However, the typology of the grave goods showed that they did not belong to a different chronological phase of the necropolis, but represent a different choice of funerary ritual, probably within the same family nucleus;
3. the identification, immediately south of the southern edge of the necropolis, of a “U” shaped accumulation of bricks, part of the parapets of a walkway/small timber bridge built above the lateral channel running along the road to link the road itself with the necropolis and adjacent terrain. That this structure was built at the same time as the road is shown by the fact that at this point the channel is narrower in order to make the crossing easier. The presence of this small bridge in phase with the via publica suggests that it led to a private road (all traces of which have been destroyed by agricultural activity) leading to a rural settlement, which the necropolis situated on the edges of the property along the road, was also a part of. In order to verify this proposal, it will be necessary in coming campaigns to check how far the tombs extend to the north where they already appear to be present in the field north of the excavation area covering an area of at least another 1000 m2.